On December 31, Alan Keyes paid his $2,500 filing fee to be on the Texas Republican presidential primary ballot. That ballot now has 9 candidates on it. Fred Thompson still hasn’t filed, but he is free to do so on … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2007
On December 28, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court construed one particular state law favorably to ballot access, in the case titled In re: Nomination Petition of Paulmier, no. 172 EAL 2007. The issue was a provision in the Pennsylvania Ethics Act … Continue reading
On December 31, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, a Republican, appointed fellow Republican Roger Wicker to the vacant U.S. Senate seat. Wicker is the current Congressman from the 1st district (the northeast part of the state). Mississippi election law is not … Continue reading
The Virginia Green Party (which is affiliated with the national Green Party) is preparing to get on the 2008 ballot for president. Virginia is one of the eleven “bad” states in which an unqualified party can’t get on the ballot, … Continue reading
This article appeared on Salon.com on December 31. The author researched what Mayor Mike Bloomberg has said and done about foreign policy issues during this decade. Thanks to Jack Ross for this. … Continue reading