California holds a special election to fill the vacant U.S. House seat, 10th district, on September 1. In the likely event that no one gets 50%, there will be a run-off on November 3 between the top vote-getter from each party, along with any independent candidates. The 10th district is in the eastern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. UPDATE: the American Independent Party and the Green Party also have members for this race who qualified by paying the filing fee.
It is likely that the only non-major party member who will be on the ballot will be Mary McIlroy, of the Peace & Freedom Party. The deadline for submitting signatures is July 20. However, signatures in lieu of the filing fee were due July 6, only three days after the Governor proclaimed the special election. Normally, minor party members in California collect signatures in lieu of the filing fee, which for this election is $1,740. Because the period for collecting that type of petition was so short, no one was able to use the in-lieu method. McIlroy, alone among several minor party and independents who had been interested in running in this election, raised the filing fee.
Mary McIlroy’s campaign website can be found at http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/mcilroy-for-congress
The people in controll of the American Independent Party
couldn’t find anyone to run again. What a joke. Eat meet and retreat.
The minority board of AIP [Ed Noonan and the Alan Keyes faction] controls the ballot access. The Chuck Baldwin faction could raise the fee[s] and get the person[s], only to have the Alan Keyes group and Secretary of State nix the entire deal.
It [like what is left of the California reform movement] is much more complicated than Glenn Brown gives it credit for …………
How can Noonan “control” ballot access? In California anyone can run you just pay a fee and collect signitures.
Gary: Party Primaries and or conventions! Hey if any one connected with the California AIP could run, then the Constitutional Party Convention nominee, Chuck Baldwin, would be on the 2008 ballot. [He wasn’t!]
Do you even have the vaguest idea of what you are talking ’bout? It is folks like you that give non Democrats and non GOP a bad name! [Duh!]
CFABVH: If I correctly understand the process by which the California AIP nominee is chosen in U.S. House elections, it is very different from the method by which the AIP’s presidential nominee is chosen. The state party leaders have more control over the latter than they do over the former.
How could and why would the Noonan faction stop an AIP candidate from running in this House race? The “why” part of that question is especially relevant here, since no one at all from the AIP is running in the 10th district race. It’s not as if there is a contest between the different AIP factions in this race.
Jerry Denham will be the American Independent Party Candidate for the 10th district. His papers will be finalized and filed today. In his own words he is trying to be accomodating to both sides of the AIP battle but I predict that he will be a supporter of the REAL AIP as represented by Chairman Jim King.
Don Grundmann Vice-Chairman American Independent Party, California branch of the Constitution Party.
It appears the LP will not have a candidate in this race, primarily because of the short-shrift that the Governor caused on this one–the twerp! Good luck to those minor parties that do make the ballot on this one.
Oh, Der Ahnold, whom conferenced IN PERSON with Ctizens to hear, IN DETAIL, on 18 August 2003, long standing abused veterans issues?. While California is now TRILLIONS of dollars in debt [AOK, may be it just seems that way] Schwartz En Faker is willing to spend [push!] dearly held funding to re- establish the Skilled Nursing Unit at the worst veterans care campus on the planet [Barstow]! This is currently the only SNIF closed down of all of the almost two hundred such facilities in the nation. [Dozens and dozens of suspicious incidents including unnecessary patient deaths …..]
AIP/ CP note, Jim [If it ain’t anti abortion don’t bother me] King also resides in San Bernardino County and has ‘looked the other way’ on dead and dying former military for over a decade. —- And old line AIP types still claim [like Diane Templin] to care ’bout vets!
——- Donald Raymond Lake, used abused notamused
Mary McIlrory’s support for the INLA support is for terrorism.
The INLA is an illegal organisation in the Republic of Ireland where it is classified as such under the Offences against the State Act 1939. A suppression order was issued by the Irish government in 1983 which proscribed the organisation. The United Kingdom has proscribed the INLA under anti-terrorism legislation.