Bill Bloomfield: Top-Two Is Not the Death of the GOP; The GOP Is Killing Itself

In a response to an opinion piece published in the LA Times, essentially blaming top-two for the decline of the California Republican Party and California's move to a one-party state, businessman and former independent congressional candidate Bill Bloomfield wrote a letter to the editor over the weekend, explaining that top-two is not to blame for the death of the California GOP; the Republican Party is responsible for its own demise:

Top-two reform tilts California toward one-party rule

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Bill Bloomfield ran as an independent candidate in California's 33rd congressional district in 2012, the first year the nonpartisan election system went into effect for all statewide races. The new election model was approved by California voters in 2010 under Proposition 14, which was authored by the Independent Voter Project.

Bloomfield advanced past the primary stage along with Democratic incumbent Henry Waxman. Bloomfield came the closest any independent candidate has in recent history to defeating a partisan incumbent in the general election in California, garnering 46 percent of the vote.

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