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Originally Posted by Airwaves
...I do have a question, when I looked up the party affiliation of the five folks who sponsored the bill, 3 were listed as D and 2 were listed as R&D...What is an R&D?
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Ah, the mysterious R & D!
Each primary a number of politicians in partisan races find themselves unopposed. Let's say the politician in question is a Democrat. If ten or more Republican voters write his/her name in on the blank Republican box for that race, his/her name will appear on both sides of the general election ticket. Since he/she is now on both sides of the general election ticket he/she has been morphed in to a R & D!
In reality, the individual elected is still a loyal member (usually) of their initial party, you might have to dig a little deeper to find out which party that is.
In my area the County Commissioners are usually Democrats and usually unopposed in the primary. Since the top vote getter in the general election usually is annointed and the Commission Chair, they try and get as many Republican voters to write them in in the primary and look for the extra republican votes in the general election from straight ticket voters. Oops, looks like straight ticket voting is going away!
Isn't politics grand???!!!
