The Conforti v. Hanlon case has made news on the political blogs this week. The Conforti plaintiffs have asked the federal court to end the “county line” in New Jersey primaries. That means that they want to suppress the free speech and associational rights of myself, the hundreds of grass roots activists in the party that I lead, and the party itself. While it doesn’t appear that my opinion is welcomed by the Conforti plaintiffs, I am going to air it here. 2020 congressional candidate Arati Kreibich is not the lead plaintiff, but she is a good study why this suit is bad for taxpayers and voters. Ms. Kreibich’s argument appears to rest at least in part on the belief that that she lost her primary to Congressman Gottheimer because she ran “off the line”, and that if there was no line she would have won. That’s nonsense.