Colorado GOP chairman Steve House. The executive committee of the Colorado Republican Party voted to eliminate the presidential preference poll. (Denver Post file)
Re: “Colorado GOP justified in ending presidential caucus poll,” Sept. 6 Ross Kaminsky column.
I’ve never met columnist Ross Kaminsky or listened to his radio show, but I’ve been active in the Colorado Republican Party for nearly 20 years. He’s wrong about ending the straw poll. The primary goal of the caucus system has always been to encourage grassroots activism, not to create a two-tiered system where party activists exert disproportionate influence in party politics. Itap fun to be one of only a few people at the caucus, and to get elected to the county and state, and possibly national, assemblies and conventions. Saying that too many people will show up to caucus, and that it will be too difficult to handle the crowds, though, is completely opposite of the main purpose of the caucus system, and smacks of simple laziness.
Dave Sprecace, Denver
This letter was published in the Sept. 13 edition.
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