Politics for the People on C-SPAN

Independents Alert!

C-SPAN has indicated they plan to broadcast coverage of last Friday's Politics for the People, Thursday, May 4th, at 10:30 pm.

Please check your local listings, set your DVR and most importantly invite friends, family and colleagues to watch a cutting edge dialogue featuring host Cathy Stewart, former Congressman Mickey Edwards, IndependentVoting.org president Jackie Salit and the Politics for the People live audience, on the role of independents in U.S. politics.


I was in the audience at this month class that Cathy does in New York City. They are held rotating through the five boroughs.

We talked about the negative role of the political parties in US, the cultural component of change, the competing powers of our government and the role of the President, the massive political disalignment of the American people from the political parties and more in this wide ranging conversation.

Jackie and Mickey have books coming out in August.

Jackie's is called Independents Rising, Outsider Movements, Third Parties, and the Struggle for a Post-Partisan America.

Mickey's is called The Parties Versus The People, How to turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans.

Use the above link to watch the event on C-SPAN's Video Library.









NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote!

Michael H. Drucker
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How to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans

Mickey Edwards is the Director of the Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership and lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He was a member of Congress from Oklahoma from 1977 to 1992, elected as a Republican.

Since leaving Congress he has taught at Harvard, Georgetown, and Princeton Universities and has chaired various task forces for the Constitution Project, the Brookings Institution, and the Council on Foreign Relations. In addition, he is currently an advisor to the US Department of State and a member of the Princeton Project on National Security.

In his upcoming book The Parties vs. The People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans, Edwards offers a six step plan to fix Congress, designed - as he puts it - "to turn our political system on its head, so that the people, not parties, control our government."

Edwards calls for open primaries to "break the power of the partisans ... so "They [elected officials] would be our representatives, not the representatives of their political clubs."

Use the above link to read Edward's article in The Atlantic for a preview of what's to come.









NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote!

Michael H. Drucker
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