GOP Leaders Continue to Play Games in Closed Primary Debate

At the turn of this year, Columbia lawmakers received the most pressure yet over finally closing partisan primaries. After two decades of proposed legislation, the state house constitutional laws subcommittee held a hearing on H.3643 and H.3310.

Per usual, legislation that the Republican establishment has no appetite to pass is scheduled at the end of the hearing and/or under tremendous time restraints due to the representatives needing to get to the house floor for proceedings.

You see, an important part of holding together the uniparty statehouse coalition together is having moderates and leftists vote in Republican primaries in our Republican supermajority state.