Three independent candidates will appear on the California ballot on November 2 for U.S. House. While three is not a very big number, this is the largest number of independent candidates for the U.S. House ever to appear on the California ballot since the state began using government-printed ballots in 1892.
California has never had easy ballot access rules for independent candidates. The original law, passed in 1891, required a petition of 5% of the last vote cast, although that was lowered to 3% of the last vote cast in 1893. Nowadays the requirement for district office is 3% of the number of registered voters.
The three independent candidates in 2010 are Nicholas Dibs of Long Beach, Cecilia Iglesias of Santa Ana, and John Hager of Santa Barbara.
The 6th California Super-state Parliament Circuit #11
Updated on 8/25/2010
8/6/2010 through 8/5/2014
http://www.usparliament.org/ss11.htm
Five Elected Executives
Prime Minister Lily Montgomery [Information Not Available]
Secretary Gail Lightfoot [Libertarian]
Prime Minister Lynnette Shaw [Democratic]
Secretary Jim Doyle [Republican]
Prime Minister Virgil Hales [Green-Pot-Christ]
Two Elected Full Ministers
Attorney General Minister Jack Harrison [Peace and Freedom]
Communications Minister Alex Plewniak [Libertarian]
One Elected Deputy Minister
Deputy Attorney General Kennith Weissman [Libertarian]
One Hundred Elected Members of Super-state Parliament (MSPs)
Libertarian Party – 30 MSPs
Starchild, Mary J. Ruwart, Gail Lightfoot, Pamela J. Brown, Cory Nott, Lawrence Samuels, Kristi Stone, Marian Smithson, Sandi Web, Dale Ogden, Donna Tello, Richard Winger, Ned Roscoe, Vince Carlton [Libertarian at Large], Richard Vinable, Steve Kubby, Mark Hinkle, Alex Plewniak, Dwight Bailey, Tony Monroe, Dave LeBlanc, Richard Rider, Richard S. Bronstein, Michael Metti, Byron Stephens, Richard Newell, Andrew “Andy” Favor, Timothy J. Hannon, Angela Keaton and Kevin Takenaga
Pot Party – 20 MSPs
Bouhlod Khembisai, Mark Rodrigues, Ezekial Mitchel, Robert S., Jim Cruise, James May, Adam Meed, Phil Zek, Chuck John, Adam Morgan, Josh Nickson, Junior Stevenson [Pothead], Evan Santos, Rory Hicks [Liberal-Pot], Kyle Kirby, Jason Maya, Brad Orand, Jesse Waterman, Brent Nevile and Alex Haser [Pothead]
Parties With One Seat – 11 MSPs
Christina Adams [Environmentalist], Vanessa Moreley [Defender of the Republic], Cherish Prieditis [Anarchist], John Bergamini [Food Not Bombs], Allen McKinney [Open], Sterling [Hemp], Joel Castle [Intelligence], Eddy Lepp [Nonpartisan], Marci Pinkard [Decline to State], Darryl Perry [Boston Tea] and Jim Doyle [Republican]
Peace and Freedom Party – 12 MSPs
Jack Harrison, Debra L. Reiger, Jan Tucker, Stewart Alexander, Karen Martinez, Dina Josephine Padilla, CT Weber, Marylou Cabral, Janice Jordan, Carlos Alverez, Mohammed Arif and Robert J. Evans
Independents – 5 MSPs
Christina Tobin, Lucia Goin, Jerry Leon Carroll, Amory and Neil Brian Goldberg
Information Not Available – 4 MSPs
Bob Watkins, Ani Defranco, Carlos Santana and Mark Williams
Marijuana Party – 4 MSPs
David Payne, James Barbee [Free Marijuana], Thressia Keys and Edward Zuniga
Free Parliamentary – 4 MSPs
Laura Booth, Daniel Penisten [Free Parliament], Adrian Hickman and James Ogle
American Independent Party – 3 MSPs
Diane Bealle Templin, Markham Robinson and Don Lake
Green Party – 3 MSPs
Virgil Hales [Green-Pot-Christ], Kevin Clark [Green Libertarian] and Ross Frankel
Constitution Party – 2 MSPs
Chelene Nightingale and Joseph Sobran
Free and Equal Party – 2 MSPs
Wayne Christopher and Babette Hogan
Total – 100 MSPs
President Christina Tobin [Independent] and Vice President James Ogle [Free Parliamentary]
First vote count 8/6/2010