In a recent episode of the Civics 101 podcast, host Hannah McCarthy is joined by Independent Voting President Jackie Salit, New Hampshire Independent Voters President Tiani Coleman, and Samara Klar of the University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy for a conversation about the growth and power of independent voters.
Listen below.
Rory Appleton from the Las Vegas Review-Journal contacted Jackie Salit for help in identifying independent voters to be on a panel of nonpartisan Nevada voters discussing local and statewide issues and the presidential election. Those on Appleton’s panel (several of whom are members of our network) all expressed different ideologies, experiences and priorities, but shared one thing in common – the desire to break away from the two-party system.
Watch a panel of independent voters (including Independent Voting Board Member Dr. Jessie Fields, Sue Davies of New Jersey Independent Voters, and Daniel Battista of Baruch College, Civics Unplugged) express their dissatisfaction with the hyper-partisan impeachment process on a segment from Fox News.
In a recent article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jackie Salit, one of several political experts interviewed, speaks with journalist Rory Appleton on how partisan campaigns try to appeal to the growing number of independents across the country but fail to recognize a greater shift away from party loyalty.
“People are more and more making the link between the hyper-partisanship of politics and the dysfunction of government,” Salit said. “That is very, very troubling to people. And the more people who make that link, the more the parties are being held accountable.”
Cathy Stewart, Independent Voting’s VP of National Development, appeared with Maricopa County recorder Adrian Fontes on the PBSâs award winning show Arizona Horizon to talk about the voting rights of independents.
Thirty-three percent of all voters and forty-one percent of Latinos in Arizona are independents. Independents can vote in every Arizona primary election except one – the presidential primary. Independent Voting and its local affiliate – Indys4AZ – have been in the trenches working to change this and found an ally in Democrat Adrian Fontes.
Jane Kleeb was an honoree at the 19th Annual Anti-Corruption Awards sponsored by Independent Voting and held in lower Manhattan on October 25th. Over one hundred guests attended. Jane is the Democratic Party State Chair of Nebraska. In 2019, she was a champion for the inclusion of independents in the 2020 presidential primary and under her leadership, her state party created a binding open presidential primary, in which independents are welcome. At the request of Independent Voting, Jane went beyond Nebraska and lobbied fellow Democratic state party leaders in other states to open their primaries. Jane was unable to leave Nebraska to be be at the Anti-Corruption Awards in NYC , but sent this video acceptance speech which was played at the event.
Attorneys Harry Kresky (Independent Voting), Jeremy Gruber (Open Primaries and Michael Hardy (National Action Network) authored an important article appearing in this month’s Touro Law Review. Click here to read the article in full.
Excerpt: “… the legal status of unaffiliated voters must be engaged by our courts if we are to be true to the best traditions of American justice. Unaffiliated voters are treated as second class citizens. This Article has, we hope, demonstrated that the right of unaffiliated voters to vote, and to what are now closed primaries, is a fundamental right inherent in the liberty of the person and her rights to freedom of speech and association under the First Amendment, and under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Â This Article has, we hope,demonstrated that in the field of voting the doctrine of âseparate but equalâ has no place. Segregating unaffiliated voters, preventing them from meaningful participation in the primaries, is inherently unequal and deprives them of what is due them under the Constitution.”
By Jackie Salit
First published by IVN
February 13, 2019
There is a dirty word in American politics, worse than âcrook,â more terrible than âphilandererâ more despicable than âliar.â The word is âspoiler.â
A crook, a philanderer and a liar sully the character of an office, or enrich themselves at the public trough, or violate the public trust. These offenses are punishable, sometimes forgivable. But âspoilerâ is the Scarlet Letter. The perpetrator has committed a special crime, one that changes the course of events as they were meant to be. The spoiler brings about a perversion, an unintended consequence, an unnatural outcome.
Or so the Democratic Party would have us believe. After all, if you must defeat Donald Trump to save civilization-as-we-know-it, you must preserve, protect and defendâŠthe Democratic Party! Consequently, the announcement by Howard Schultz, founder of Starbucks, that he is considering a run for President as an independent has brought the Wrath of the Liberal Gods down upon him.
Schultz appeared almost three weeks ago on the CBS show 60 Minutes to break the news. Scott Pelley played the part of the incorruptible interviewer unafraid to ask the tough questions, as if Schultz were Vladimir Putin or Bashar Al-Assad. First question: âWhy run as an independent? Your views have always aligned with the Democratic Party.â Second question: âDo you worry that youâre going to siphon votes away from the Democrats and, thereby, ensure that President Trump has a second term?â
While I was agitated at first by Pelleyâs line of questioning, I realized that he had hit the nail on the head. Because a subplot of the 2020 presidential contest is to question whether the Democratic Party outright owns the opposition to President Trump. Put another way, should the American people be permitted to consider and determine an alternative form of an opposition?
We barely heard the tick-tock of the signature 60 Minutes clock at the end of the segment when Twitter feeds lit up. Professor Larry Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, and inexplicably the go-to âexpertâ on all things independent, immediately objected to Schultzâs statement that 40% of the electorate are independents. This statement was a core piece of Schultzâs story. The partisan system is no longer serving the interests of the country. Schultz isnât the only one who sees the problem. 40% of the country does as well.
Naturally, Sabato had to pull the rug out from under all that, tweeting that being an independent is âjust a popular cover label for hidden partisans, who are quite loyal to their hidden party.â Â Sabato then joined the chorus of pundits, pollsters, politicians, and poobahs denouncing Schultz as a spoiler. Perhaps theyâd like to throw Schultz in the water and see if he sinks.
Howard Schultz, should he decide to run, will want to prove himself to the 40% and to the independent movementâs leaders, since independents do not automatically vote for anyone, including independents. Thatâs the point, independent voters want to vote for the person, not the party. This community of voters has been swinging across the political divide and deciding national elections since 2008 for reasons that the political establishment refuses to take seriously. At the very least, Schultz is taking us seriously.
Others were quick to condemn the possibility of a Schultz run, including Michael Bloomberg. Having run Mikeâs three Independence Party mayoral campaigns, and having helped to spur his efforts to bring nonpartisan political reform to New York City (sadly, we failed) I give him credit for his past independent leadership. Now that he is a Democrat, surrounded by Democratic advisors, I fear he has lost his âindependent touch.â Bloombergâs polemic against Schultz is based on the âdata.â This data âprovedâ that the White House was unwinnable for an independent in 2016 and, more importantly, that such a scenario would elect Donald Trump. Ergo, Howard should stand down in 2020 because he is a spoiler. Never mind that Trump won the election in 2016 after Mike stood down.
All the âdataâ in the world might miss the public appetite for an electoral revolt that overwhelms the two-party status quo. We surely need to give that possibility room to breathe. Political science, polling and traditional numbers-crunching are sometimes competent at capturing what is, though they missed the 2016 presidential election by a mile. But how shall we measure something that is becoming? And more importantly, how do we disrupters navigate through a system that is structured to crush the possibility that something in the process of becoming can be actualized?
Americaâs troubles did not begin when Donald Trump made his way to the White House, far from it. Steve Schmidt, the sharp-tongued human steamroller political consultant who is now advising Schultz, offered a blistering critique of the Liberal Establishmentâs attacks on Schultz. âAre we fated into perpetuity to be in this cycle of revenge politics, of self-interestâŠor can we do something better?â Schmidt goes on, âWe decry rightly the illiberalism of Donald Trump, his attacks on the press, his attacks on the rule of law. But what about the illiberalism of people who claim to oppose Trump who shout down people from the public square?â
Schmidt asks good questions, but doesnât go far enough. For the immediate hysteria of the Democratic Party opinion makers has an identifiable cause. The party is mired in its own internal battlesâleft vs. center, Old Guard vs. Young Turks, black and brown vs. white, female vs. male, the proponents of supertaxing the superrich vs. the fiscal moderates. These factions will compete for the nomination, a competition that will run through the all-important early fundraising, the primary debates, the primaries and caucuses and the delegated convention in July. In order to mend ideological fences, bring the party back together and mount a fierce general election campaign, the Democratic leadership must promote the idea that anything and everything must be sacrificed and back-burnered to drive Donald Trump from office. Thus, the âspoilerâ argument must be weaponized early and without reserve.
The fact is that no one knows what the outcome of a three-way or four-way race for the Presidency in 2020 might produce. This is an unprecedented environment, and yes, independent voters are very much in play. Right now Independent Voting is pressing the parties, particularly the Democratic Party, to guarantee that all its presidential primaries will be open to non-aligned voters. Should they accede to that, it could open not just the partiesâ primaries, which denied access to over 25 million independents in 2016, but a process for negotiating a potential Independent/Democrat political coalition for 2020.
For now, Howard Schultz is doing the country a great service, whether he planned to or not. He is forcing a public conversation about the 2020 presidential process, about the 40% of Americans who are independents, and about the authoritarian self-interest of the Democratic Party. Thatâs a good start.
Join Jackie Salitâs National Conference call entitled, âIndependent Eyes on 2020: Howard Schultz, Hysterical Democrats, Authoritarian Republicans and the Rules of the Game.â Sign up here and submit a question to Jackie.
Read: âA Brief Recap of Some Spoiler Controversiesâ w/ historical news footage from prior independent campaigns.
Since Howard Schultzâs announcement, and the sudden surge of spoiler propaganda, much has been made of the 1992 independent presidential campaign of Ross Perot who, it is frequently asserted, âcostâ George H.W. Bush his re-election. Take a few minutes to look at the 10 minute mini-documentary created by Five-Thirty-Eight titled âThe Perot Myth,â which chronicles the fallacy of that spoiler myth. Perot actually pulled equally from Republican and Democrat voters.
Let us not forget that Perot was under attack from multiple sides as soon as he started showing in the polls. These attacks persisted into his second run in 1996, when the tactic of his candidacy became to promote an all-independents primary and to create a new political party. Opponents went to work dismissing the Perot Movement as a âshamâ and âshell gameâ by an egoistic billionaire. Sound familiar? Hereâs a link to a CNBCÂ show I did with GOP strategist John Podhoretz at the time, where we debated the ârealityâ of the movement.
In 1988, a Black developmental psychologist and radical community organizer, Dr. Lenora Fulani, ran for President as an independent and was the first woman and first African American to access the ballot in all 50 states. Turning the spoiler attack on its head, Fulani appealed to Black voters to use their power to deny Michael Dukakis and the Democratic Party the White House in response to their treatment of Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition. She found herself in the crosshairs of Democratic wrath when Michael Dukakis advisor Ron Brown called her campaign âridiculous.â Here are portions of a CBS news clip from 1988 covering the controversy.
Jackie Salit, the President of Independent Voting, sent the following letter to Tom Perez, chair of the Democratic National Committee. She invited independent activists and leaders in her network to join in this outreach. The letter urges that he meet with a group of independent leaders and take the decisive step of opening the 2020 presidential primaries and caucuses to independent voters.
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December 12, 2018
Tom Perez, Chair
Democratic National Committee
430 South Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DCÂ 20003
Dear Chairman Perez,
I write on behalf of the 34 million independent voters who cast their ballots on Election Day.  I am the President of Independent Voting, the countryâs largest organization of independent voters. I am joined in this outreach by leaders and activists from our network.  We represent Americaâs growing community of independents, now 44% of the electorate. We come from across the country and from all walks of life, from diverse backgrounds and communities.
Exit polling in the midterms shows that independent voters supported House Democratic candidates over Republicans at a rate of 54% to 42%. This support gave the Democratic Party control of the House for the first time in ten years. That means approximately 18 million independents voted for Democratic congressional candidates. Furthermore, more independents came out to vote in the midterms than did in 2014, resulting in a 38% increase in our participation in the November 6th election. It is also worth noting that the political reforms enacted through popular initiatives in Michigan, Colorado, Missouri, Maryland, Florida and Utah had huge levels of support from independent voters.
Our numbers are growing, and, increasingly, we are making the difference in the outcome of elections, while also charting a path for democratic reform. But we are a misunderstood and under-recognized force in the electorate. Contrary to media and pundit spin, we are not âleanersâ and we have no interest in becoming either Democrats or Republicans. We wish to remain as independents and we wish to be recognized and respected as such.
In 2016, independent voters were locked out or otherwise restricted in the presidential primaries in 27 states. This meant that over 26 million Americans could not fully participate in the process of electing the President. As you no doubt recall, there was public outcry over this exclusion, particularly from young voters unfamiliar with the closed systems.  They were stunned on primary day when they could not vote. In some statesâlike Arizona where 41% of Latinos are registered as independents, or Florida, where recent surveys indicate 39% of Latinos and 31% of African Americans identify as independentsâthis exclusion negatively impacts the voting rights of minorities.
We do not want to experience this kind of exclusion again in 2020, and we are reaching out to pursue ways to remedy this problem. Based on the estimated number of independents who voted for the Democrats in the midterms, and the number who were excluded in 2016, we surmise that your party could attract as many as 14 million additional independent voters in the 2020 primaries, if those elections were open to non-aligned voters.In 2016, your state party organizations in Oklahoma, Alaska, California, South Dakota and Nebraska changed their party rules to allow independents to vote. No judicial or legislative action was required. Every state party should do this in 2020.
While we, the undersigned, make no pledge or commitment with regard to supporting any particular 2020 presidential candidateâDemocratic, Republican, minor party or independentâwe believe the time has come for both governing parties, and for the Democratic Party in particular, to take the decisive step of opening the 2020 presidential primaries to independents. Your party has announced that its first order of business in the new Congress will be the introduction of HB1, a political reform bill. However, to be a truly inclusive democracy, non-aligned voters must have full access to the electoral process, which HB1 does not address.
We, the undersigned, represent thousands of activists across the country working towards achieving full voting rights for all Americans. We hope that you will be available to discuss these issues at the soonest possible moment.
Sincerely,
Jacqueline Salit
President, Independent Voting
Diane Matchett, Homer, AK
Beverly Cowling, Toney, AL
Bob Friedman, Birmingham, AL
Rex Baumgardner, Kingman, AZ
Al Bell, Peoria, AZ
Duncan Brown, Tucson, AZ
Tom and Susan Calle, Mesa, AZ
Dennis Flaherty, Chandler, AZ
Mary Maguire, Surprise, AZ
James Morrison, Tucson, AZ
Richard Sinclair, Scottsdale, AZ
Helen Abel, Richmond, CA
Jill Battalen, Oakland, CA
Bob Bogardus, Carmel, CA
Francesca Bolognini, Cambria, CA
Judy Depenau, Santa Rosa, CA
John Eldon, Encinitas, CA
Jeffrey Gerber, Los Angeles, CA
Margaret E Golden, San Mateo, CA
David Guerrero, Ventura, CA
Eric Gwynn, Westwood, CA
Susan Halvorsen, Gualala, CA
Laurel Kadish, Oakland, CA
Michael Kast, Panorama City, CA
Gerald Larey, Summerland, CA
Irene Lucia, Santa Rosa, CA
Cynthia Maher, Los Angeles, CA
Alec Marken, Mission Viejo, CA
Geraldine May, Creston, CA
Dennis McCoy, Tujunga, CA
Maureen ORorke, Corte Madera, CA
Jeanne Schneider, Carlsbad, CA
Steve Stokes, Los Angeles, CA
Eunice Stronger, Oakland, CA
Rusty Thomas, Saratoga, CA
David Weaver, Venice, CA
Roger Wilhelm, Pioneer, CA
Randy Wilson, San Francisco, CA
Gwen Ballard, Carbondale, CO
Randy Fricke, New Castle, CO
Philip Henke, Aurora, CO
Hongyi Jones, Lakewood, CO
Gregory Kozloff, Denver, CO
Fred Malo, Carbondale, CO
Michael Mcloughlin, Lakewood, CO
Susan Sandoz, Highlands Ranch, CO
Nancy Wightman, Lakewood, CO
Lori Williams, Fort Collins, CO
Katherine Wolf, Fountain, CO
Thomas Brown, North Haven, CT
Owen Charles, Madison, CT
Ernest (TJ) Elgin, Westport, CT
Tom Fulda, Rocky Hill, CT
Kirsten Fulda, New Haven, CT
James Kelly Storrs, Mansfield, CT
Carl McCluster, Derby, CT
Jacob R. Raitt, Black Rock, CT
Charlotte Scot, Old Lyme, CT
Maurice Hawkes, Washington, DC
Theodore Killheffer, Wilmington, DE
Fatima Chagani, Hialeah, FL
Gabriela Cheli, Key Biscayne, FL
Greg Flynn, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Steve Hough, Panama City, FL
Bob Inman, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Leslie Johnson, St Petersburg, FL
Francisco Pierre-Louis, Tampa, FL
Claudia Reed, Bokeelia, FL
Terry Richardson, Casselberry, FL
Loyd Sibert, Ocala, FL
Nina Tatlock, Apollo Beach, FL
Rick Thompson, Port Charlotte, FL
Jose Torres, Jacksonville, FL
Murray Dabby, Atlanta, GA
Eugene Howard, Marietta, GA
Clara T. Mills, Atlanta, GA
Barbara Franklin, Honokaa, HI
James Zampathas, Kamuela, HI
Wendie Dockstader, Iowa City, IA
Jean Marsden, Ames, IA
Rose Riker, Sioux City, IA
Kim Tremel, Coralville, IA
Steph Trujillo, Des Moines, IA
Gertrude Ann Wade, Iowa City, IA
Rick Tousley, Lewiston, ID
Brian Arata, Mundelein, IL
David Cherry, Chicago, IL
Jarell Corley, Flossmoor, IL
Nicholas Feda, Elgin, IL
Jackie Freeman, Naperville, IL
Rose Al, Elmhurst, IL
Michael Toussaint, Frankfort, IL
Daniel Shenk, Goshen, IN
Lance Gormley, Newton, KS
Bryce Johannes, Lawrence, KS
Mayjo LaPlante, Topeka, KS
Elaine Stephen, Wichita, KS
Kent Williams, Garden City, KS
Richard Hancock, Richmond, KY
Cassia Herron, Louisville, KY
Mark Ritter, Frankfort, KY
Steve Rockhold, Louisville, KY
Charles Witt, Winchester, KY
David Shepherd, Greenwell Springs, LA
Glenn Heckard, Lafayette, LA
Sarah Bayer, Cambridge, MA
Andrew Costigan, Norwood, MA
Evelyn Dougherty, W. Roxbury, MA
Michael Mullen, Maynard, MA
Lowell Ward, Dorchester, MA
Diane Whitehouse, Dorchester, MA
Nancy Woolley, Stoughton, MA
Marjory Donn, Greenbelt, MD
Stephen Knox, Middle River, MD
Janet McDermott, Trappe, MD
Dona Sauerburger, Gabrillis, MD
Carolyn Sonnen, Annapolis, MD
Bob Croce, Holden, ME
Maria Irrera, Lincolnville, ME
Jill Martel, Dedham, ME
James McNally, Island Falls, ME
Joseph Pickering, Bangor, ME
Julia Smucker, Portland, ME
William Tibby, Mount Vernon, ME
Nancy Boyd, Big Rapids, MI
Thomas Fehlner, Buchanan, MI
Roopa Hindia, Royal Oak, MI
Linda I. Hixson, Ludington, MI
Phil Leech, Spring Lake, MI
Jill Rahrig Bronkema, Bellaire, MI
Gilbert White, Haslett, MI
Christopher Yunke, Onondaga, MI
Luke Barber, Saint Louis, MO
Laszlo Fodor, Maryville, MO
Kelley Keisch, Troy, MO
Mark O’Bryan, St. Louis, MO
Kim Wright, Joplin, MO
Alan Jones, Waveland, MS
Billy Angus, Hamilton, MT
Glen Burbidge, Circle, MT
Omar Ali, Greensboro, NC
Stephen Jack, Goldsboro, NC
Elzy Lindsey, Asheville, NC
Shawn McDowell, Charlotte, NC
Robert Obermeyer, Caswell Beach, NC
Tiani Coleman, Amherst, NH
Alfred Gilbert, Manchester, NH
Kristin Noel, Chichester, NH
Philip Rose, Goffstown, NH
Peter White, Nottingham, NH
Mark Balsam, North Bergen, NJ
Sue Davies, Jersey City, NJ
Sally Jane Gellert, Woodcliff Lake, NJ
Javier Luque, Hasbrouck, NJ
Julie Nersesian, South Orange, NJ
Ramon Peña, Perth Amboy, NJ
Michael Teague, Middlesex, NJ
Kenneth Harris, Pie Town, NM
Gordon Hill, Las Cruces, NM
Tisha Le Rose, Albuquerque, NM
Catana Barnes, Reno, NV
Doug Goodman, Sparks, NV
James Young, Reno, NV
Brett Aresco, Brooklyn, NY
Naomi Azulay, New York, NY
Douglas Balder, New York, NY
David Belmont, New York, NY
Ina Bransome, Rockaway Beach, NY
Diane Buscemi, New York, NY
Joyce Dattner, Brooklyn, NY
Lisa Dombrow, Brooklyn, NY
Caroline Donnola, Brooklyn, NY
Michael Drucker, New York, NY
Jessie Fields, New York, NY
Alvaader Frazier, New York, NY
Mary Fridley, Brooklyn, NY
Sandy Friedman, New York, NY
Phyllis Goldberg, New York, NY
Steve Guarin, Bronx, NY
Kate Henselmans, New York, NY
Harriet Hoffman, New York, NY
James Horton, New York, NY
Thomas Humphrey, Camillus, NY
Regina Kolber, Brooklyn, NY
Christine LaCerva, Brooklyn, NY
Guy Lallemand, Queens, NY
Yvonne Lee, New York, NY
Kathryn Levy, Sag Harbor, NY
Sarah Lyons, Staten Island, NY
Gwen Mandell, New York, NY
Elyse Mendel, Brooklyn, NY
Gail Peck, Bronx, NY
Mark Picard, New York, NY
Marian Rich, New York, NY
Katrina Rittershofer, Yonkers, NY
Nancy Ross, Shushan, NY
Alice Rydel, New York, NY
Cathy Salit, New York, NY
Cathy Stewart, Bronx, NY
Vicky Wallace, New York, NY
Joshua Wallman, New York, NY
Joyce Weisberger, New York, NY
June Hirsh, New York, NY
Sheryl Williams, New York, NY
Janet Wootten, New York, NY
Nancy Brown, Lewis Center, OH
Cynthia Carpathios, Alliance, OH
Stephen Johnston, Marion, OH
Kathryn Little, Cleveland, OH
Constance Mayham, Cincinnati, OH
Sadie Moore Stewart, Cleveland Heights, OH
Andre Morrison, Willowick, OH
Donna Plunkett, Canton, OH
Rick Robol, Columbus, OH
John Ehret, Tulsa, OK
Nicole Rowlette, Tulsa, OK
Dave Ehrlichman, Beaverton, OR
Rick Kauffman, Sublimity, OR
Marcel Liberge, Murphy, OR
Gerald A. McDonald, Klamath Falls, OR
Bonnie Waterston, Portland, OR
Robert Anderson, Columbia, PA
Stephen Bouikidis, Jenkintown, PA
Jennifer Bullock, Philadelphia, PA
Cynthia Crumlish, Philadelphia, PA
Diana Dakey, Dalton, PA
Jan Haig, Phoenixville, PA
Kenneth Hall, Erie, PA
Deborah Meledandri, Murrysville, PA
Cathy Moorehead, Easton, PA
Michael Moorehead, Easton, PA
Ted Robb, Philadelphia, PA
Norma Van Dyke, Philadelphia, PA
Paul Calvanelli, Mechanicsburg, PA
Carl Farmer, Providence, RI
Michael Childs, Myrtle Beach, SC
Wayne Griffin, Greenville, SC
Rick Knobe, Sioux Falls, SD
Trudy Austin, Crossville, TN
Logan Mulford, Knoxville, TN
Brian Carver, Pflugerville, TX
Alie Hewell, Venus, TX
Jesus Pantel, Austin, TX
Ruth Roberts, Galveston, TX
KC Sutherland, Spring, TX
Jan Ward, Leander, TX
Randy Miller, Syracuse, UT
PJ Steiner, Taylorsville, UT
Meryl Butler, Norfolk, VA
Johnette Cosby, N. Chesterfield, VA
Tonya Edlow, Ashburn, VA
Steven Markman, Manassas, VA
Tyler Martin, Purcellville, VA
Steve Richardson, Falls Church, VA
Carl Sheusi, Lynchburg, VA
Michael Smielecki, South Chesterfield, VA
Rudolph Travers, Culpeper, VA
Ginni Treadwell, Westfield, VT
Ronald P. Wold, Randolph, VT
Mark McDougall, Gig Harbor, WA
Teri Raymond, Orient, WA
Diana Fraley, Beloit, WI
Anne Izhiman, Milwaukee, WI
Richard Lyons, Madison, WI
Sharon Nault, Manitowoc, WI
Jason Armentrout, Keyser, WV
Bernard Burnside, Clarksburg, WV
Gaylan Wright, Cheyenne, WY
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