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That process often determines the party's positions on the most significant public policy issues of the day, and even when those positions are predetermined it is the nominee who becomes the party's ambassador to the general electorate in winning it over to the party's views.
That party nominees will be equally observant of internal party procedures and equally respectful of party discipline when their nomination depends on the general electorate rather than on the party faithful seems to us improbable.
When a political party defines the organization and composition of its governing units, when it decides what candidates to endorse, and when it decides whether and how to communicate those endorsements to the public, it is engaged in the kind of private expressive associational activity that the First Amendment protects.
The state party resolutions committee, which actually dealt with the agenda items of positions on ballot measures that were to go before the Executive Board, also met Friday night and voted overwhelmingly in a different direction--that the party take no position.
Chris Stampolis, President of the CaliforniaDemocratic Council, an association of Democratic Clubs and County Committees in the state, said they had just voted to endorse Prop 89 the day before, and that in excess of three-quarters of their members had voted for that position.
And all the rationalization in the world about "standing to sue" will not cover the truth that the party caved in to those segments of organized labor that think that their access to the party and its office holders is more important than good public policy and the long term health of the DemocraticParty.
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