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a common thing, that they give money to candidates. YUEN: If I could just make, along the same lines, one more comment. If there's more than one Democrat running, I don't know how the Democratic Party would decide which person to give the money to in the first go around, which is the - HERKES: They would give to neither. They wouldn't do it. MARTIN: They wouldn't. HIGASHI: They don't. HERKES: They don't. MARTIN: And in the past, what transpired is the Primary Election. The winner comes out and that's when the Party, in fact, goes behind and supports them 100%. As Roland indicated, though, on the County level, there's no monetary gratuities. Again, the fear factor that the Green Party has, and what we've heard from the individual in Volcano, is that they're going to lose some identity. And I don't see that happening. As a Democrat myself, you run on your ability to do the job. And actually to me, being non-partisan, it cuts ties from, per se, the ` old boy network', if you will. So, the hysteria that we've heard from the Green Party and this one individual Republican is just that, hysteria. They're going to lose their identity and possibly the ability to do what they've done in the past. Yes, I see that possibly happening. There may be some validity to what the Green Party is saying, but if they are that good, it should enhance them, and not deter them. RAY: Marni. HERKES: I'd like to get back to what Sue said about policy setting. If we are, in truth, trying to attract more people to run for office, trying to open up the system, this is not rocket science. It's not something that we're blazing a trail because 80% of the jurisdictions have non-partisan. All of the counties in the state have non-partisan. There's a reason for that and that's because it has been proven to open up elections, to be able to have people that don't have ties to political parties run for elections. So, I'd like to put my oar in the water in favor of non-partisan in spite of the fact that I'm going to get in trouble for it. RAY: Well, we're not taking any votes tonight. MARTIN: I think we should have some sort of a straw vote to see if we want to leave it here or not. Is it going to take to the next meeting to decide if we're going to leave something, or begin. to consider hacking away and getting rid of it? I mean, when are we going to do that, if that's what you're looking to do? No time like the present. KUROZAWA: But John, I think your idea's a good one. If we can go through 18