Coloradans’ revolution against the two-party system is the headline of an opinion piece written by Paula Noonan and published in today's Colorado Politics. There are no guns or barricades. The quiet revolution is that 51.8% of voters in Colorado are now unaffiliated. Unaffiliated voters are not registered to vote with either of the major parties nor any of the minor parties. They are "none of the above" voters who are not being offered meaningful choices beyond candidates supported by the two major political parties.
(For those without a subscription to Colorado Politics, the article has been archived and can be viewed by clicking on a link here.)
The Colorado Forward Party wants to give unaffiliated voters meaningful choices. We are committed to political pluralism, meaningful voter choice, and election procedures which allow more candidates and political organizations to participate and compete.
We believe that every winner in the general election should be the candidate who has the broadest support across the population they will represent, not the candidate who does the best job of activating that candidate's political base.
Put another way, we believe that elected officials must be free to make decisions in the best interests of their constituents without being forced to consider the position which their political party insists (and sometimes demands) that they take.
Celeste Landry and Bob Chew are great examples of the kinds of candidates we want to see.
Bob Chew is willing to discuss thorny issues like the national debt and the Federal deficit. Neither of the two major parties want to discuss these issues, much less discuss policies to address the issues and to resolve them.
In addition to our two state-wide candidates, we have nominated candidates in local communities, as discussed in the Forward Party looking to break through two-party stalemate in Colorado and its communities article. For those without a subscription to The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, the article has been archived and can be viewed by clicking on a link here.
And please note that there is a national organization with which the Colorado Forward Party is affiliated. The national Forward Party is still a political action committee (PAC) because it has not yet achieved ballot access in enough states (among other qualifications) to be recognized as a national political party by the Federal Elections Commission. There are active efforts to meet the qualifications, and the national Forward Party is already having a significant impact across the United States.
