Garret Graves (R-Louisiana): "Why should you spend half of the election ostracizing or isolating half of the people you're going to be representing? I think the model is wrong. I think an open primary system makes more sense, and I wish that more states would do it that way.” 2/6 - ThreadSky

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Garret Graves (R-Louisiana): "Why should you spend half of the election ostracizing or isolating half of the people you're going to be representing? I think the model is wrong. I think an open primary system makes more sense, and I wish that more states would do it that way.” 2/6

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greggiroux.bsky.social•25 days ago

(Louisiana long known for its 'open' all-candidate, single-ballot primary but switched to 'closed' party-only primaries for some offices starting in 2026.) 3/6

greggiroux.bsky.social•25 days ago

Dan Kildee (D-Mich.): “My favorite professor at the Kennedy School of Government, Marty Linsky, said it best: leadership is the act of disappointing your own supporters at a rate they can absorb." 4/6

greggiroux.bsky.social•25 days ago

Kildee, continued: "You've got to tell people things they don't want to hear if you're actually functioning as a leader, and there’s not enough of that here." 5/6

greggiroux.bsky.social•25 days ago

Kildee: After Michigan switched to a commission for redistricting, “Now we've got competitive seats. That's better for democracy. It's harder for us. I had to go through a really tough race in 2022, but it shouldn't be about us, it should be about how the system works.” 6/6

fiftyburger.bsky.social•25 days ago

This is most democrat thing any democrat has ever said.

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