Filing for Democratic and Republican primaries closes in Wyoming on Friday, May 30. So far the only announced Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate, both of whom have filed, are William Bryk and Al Hamburg. Bryk is an attorney in Brooklyn, New York, who is fascinated by election law. He once served as the Prohibition Party(More)…
Capital and Main, a non-partisan news source about government and politics, recently ran a two-part series by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Gary Cohn that concludes that the top-two system in California has injured labor and boosted big business. Here is the first installment, called “In plain sight: the rise of corporate Democrats in California.” Here is(More)…
According to this story, former Congressman Tom Tancredo is likely to be the Republican nominee this year for Governor of Colorado. In 2010, he was the Constitution Party’s nominee for the same office, and he received 36.4% of the vote.
Now your Congressman wants to hide behind the Supreme Court
On May 20, Georgia held primary elections. Bob Barr, the 2008 Libertarian presidential nominee, ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House, 11th district. He placed second, and will be in the July 22 Republican primary run-off. The top vote-getter, Barry Loudermilk, received 36.6%, and Barr got 25.8%. The third highest vote-getter, Tricia Pridemore, got(More)…
On May 13, Public Policy Polling released a poll for several Alaska elections. Question fourteen, for the gubernatorial general election, has these results: Republican incumbent Sean Parnell 37%, Democrat Byron Mallott 27%, independent Bill Walker 17%, Constitution Party candidate J. R. Myers 4%, undecided 15%. If Myers receives at least 3% of the vote in(More)…
As I settled into my new routine, the rest of 2004 flew by without much to speak of. I was now working 3 unofficial jobs and I enjoyed each of …
On May 19, U.S. District Court Judge Donovan W. Frank, a Clinton appointee, enjoined a Minnesota campaign contribution limit. Minnesota campaign finance laws say that after a candidate has received a certain number of large contributions, then future campaign contribution limits to that candidate are reduced to only 50% of the original individual limit. For(More)…
On March 5, 2014, some New Jersey voters who want to vote in major party primaries, but who don’t want to be listed as party members, even for one day, filed a lawsuit, asserting that their right to vote is being denied. On May 9 the state filed a brief, asking that the lawsuit be(More)…
Pass the Read the Bills Act
