Dear Thurston County Democrats: Today's newspapers are discussing the presidential preference primary and this weekend's WSDCC discussion and vote on this topic. Here is an editorial written by a rep. from the League of Women Voters published in today's Seattle Times.

Also, in the Olympian, there is an article on the Thurston Co. Democrats' resolution.

As a member of the WSDCC Rules Committee, and a proponent of the DNC delegate selection option 2c 'presidential preference primary with post primary caucus,' I want to clarify a couple of things. 1) six members of the Rules Comm. who were present at the March 3rd meeting voted in favor of the presidential preference primary, and others who were absent were also in favor of it and will speak in support this weekend. More than six were sympathetic to the arguments in favor, but voted against for fear that the DNC wouldn't accept the plan. However, with the passage of the new Primary Election statute, which was signed on April 13th.

True crossover voting is not a problem, because you can only vote for one candidate and there is no other office on the ballot. More important for the PPP from this session, is that they abolished the unaffiliated ballot. You can only vote D and R now. This complies with the DNC rules.

2) There would still be caucuses....Delegate Selection plan 2c calls for a post primary caucus. At the caucus, Democrats would still be able to bring their resolutions and platform planks.