California held its primary on June 4 for all partisan offices other than president (the California presidential primary had been in February). Elections officials estimate the turnout was only 31% of the registered voters. If so, that would be the lowest California statewide primary turnout in history. The previous low had been the June 2006 primary, with 33% of the registered voters.
For the Peace & Freedom Party, and the American Independent Party, of California, the June 4 event is of crucial importance. Elections for county central committee were held on June 4. The results will determine which presidential candidates will be nominated by those parties, especially for the Peace & Freedom Party. However, many of the candidates were write-in candidates, and write-ins are always the last to be counted. Full results may not be known until early July.
Also important for the Peace & Freedom Party are the results for Assembly, 5th district, in Sacramento. There is a contest between Gerald Frink and C. T. Weber for the party’s nomination. Both Frink and Weber hope that Weber wins. But since the write-ins will be slow to be counted, and since Weber was a write-in candidate, we must wait for those results also. The race is important, because California law irrationally requires a write-in candidate in a party primary to get thousands of write-ins, no matter how few registered members the party has. But if Weber, a write-in, receives more votes than Frink, whose name was on the ballot, that will set up the conditions for a lawsuit to perhaps finally overturn the California law on the maximum number of write-ins needed for a candidate to become a party nominee.
GOOD LUCK PHIL!!
San Diego area: One scandal ridden incumbent after another retained. One reform minded inuombent or challenger dissed.
Some times we get the misgovernment we deserve……..
San Diego area: One scandal ridden incumbent after another retained. One reform minded incumbent or challenger dissed.
Some times we get the misgovernment we deserve……..
Thank you, Laine! I will keep you posted.
Hey, Don Lake: You and your friends need to come back to the Peace and Freedom Party. You can do a lot more to help reform the Party on the inside!
Laine:
What we think right now is that there is a very good possiblity that all of the County Central Committee write-in candidates in Sacramento County got enough votes to be elected. I will continue to keep you informed.
We had an exceelent, and well-attended, CCC meeting this evening!
Every one: Why should any one bother? There are only five votes which count in the entire nation! {The majority on the National Supreme Court!) And in California, the local districts are Gerrymandered to death and every four years the Dems take every thing by over a million votes!
(The only viable alternative is a ‘throw away’ protest vote, like Perot/ Perot/ Nader/ Nader! And Sacramento’s Philip [I Love Democratic Corrupt Insider Governor Gray Davis] Sawyer pitches for GOP lite John Scary in 2004! And continues to strangely brag about such a colossal mistake to this date!)
Mister Sawyer: The Lib/ Bible Thumping/ Classic Conservative/ Neocom FAKE Third Party Watch has selected a stealth Independence Party operative to represent and blog for Non right wingers. [This agent provocateur claims to be an ‘Independent Green’ in states which already have a GP USA affiliate!] I have lobbying for you. You are better than nothing, and you are way better than this guy.
The Peace and Freedom Party? ctweber and those thugs whom dangled work on UC and then CALVETS just to get some gut work out of an under class disabled veteran? Those thugs whom solicit West Coast home grown Partisan articles just to toss them as soon as they get them? [While slavishly copying every word from the east coast Village Voice!]
You want me to rejoin an organization so arrogant that they could not bring them selves to thank the rag tag army of Dems, Greens, reformers, and others whom pulled them from oblivion in January 2005? So much in denial that they constantly talk about Richard Winger as if he were a PFP activist instead of a long term Lib stalwart? So uncommunicative that they never return communications unless they need or want some thing FROM YOU!
The Reform Party steals my money, PFP steals my time and energy! [And I am attempting to service RPCa ‘artful dodgers’ Valli Sharpe Geisler and Jewish Nazi John Blare for court battles with tons of documentation concerning debts unpaid!] Between an LA street gang and ctweber and other 1960s PFP dead and dying hippies, I would be hard pressed to be voluntary em-pressed!
Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me! The older I get, the more I under stand non voters and Decline TO States. PFP will soon adopt the Circular Firing Squad as their official ichronography and then quietly, [LIKE UNITY08 AND THE SO CALLED REFORM MOVEMENT] (limping with self inflicted wounds) go out of ‘business’ for ever!
Phil,
How many write-in candidates that support Nader were there in Sacramento? I assume this means you have been re-elected to your position as well? Hope to hear more in the future.
Laine
Okay, Don. I do not agree with any of what you wrote and I can see that I am not making any progress with getting you guys back in the Party.
Laine: The only Nader-Gonzalez supporting write-in candidate in my district (District 3) was me. There were more in District 1 – I’m not sure how many though. We are all hoping that we won our races, of course, but we do not know for certain yet. We are also hoping that we can convince the rest of the newly elected members of the County Central Committee to vote for Nader-Gonzalez at the Convention.
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