Skuzzy,
No one on this BBS is too busy to make a few phone calls, send e-mails or write letters. If they were, they wouldn't be posting here.
Primaries are all done at the state level. The primary is for you to tell the members of the party who you want placed on the ballot. Much of the work is done ahead of time but if you didn't do the petition, letter writing, caucasing etc. then you didn't make your voice heard before the pablum container came by.