Jack Roeser On SB 600

Many of us were quite shocked, recently, when Jack Roeser came out against SB 600. In fact, I had occasion to mention the fact to SB 600 opponent State Senator Dan Duffy on Saturday afternoon and he was, to use a technical term, gobsmacked.

So when I ran into Jack Saturday evening at the Reagan Day Dinner I took the opportunity to ask him about it.

Roeser told me about a new change he's now advocating to the by-laws of the IRP, which would provide a secret ballot process for committeemen to elect the State Central Committee members at the county conventions. County chairmen would no longer be allowed to cast the votes of vacant committeeman positions. Committeemen would be empowered.

While I have questions about this (how would the "weighted" vote each committeeman casts be preserved -- or would it?), I think it has a great deal to recommend it, if it could be adopted.

But something must change.