The November 3, 2009 New York city Mayoral ballot will include these eight candidates, in this ballot order: William C. Thompson (Dem., Working Families), Michael R. Bloomberg (Rep., Independence), Stephen Christopher (Conservative), Francisca Villar (Party for Socialism and Liberation), Dan Fein (Socialist Workers), Billy Talen (Green), Jimmy McMillan (Rent is Too High), Joseph Dobran (Libertarian).
Because New York city imposes a 15-letter limit on party labels, Villar’s ballot label is “Socialism & Lib.”
The 2005 mayoral race also had 8 candidates on the ballot. They were from the same parties as in 2009, except in 2005, the Party for Socialism and Liberation did not have a candidate (the party did not exist back then), and there was an independent candidate in 2005 with the label “Education.”
Two petitioning candidates for Mayor were challenged off the ballot. They were Robert Burck, “Naked Cowboy” and Alan Chusid, “Messianic.”
For the 2009 election, the other two citywide offices have fewer candidates. The Public Advocate race is a 5-way race, with these candidates: Bill de Blasio (Dem., Working Families), Alex Zablocki (Republican), William J. Lee (Conservative), Maura Deluca (Socialist Workers), and Jim Lesczynski (Libertarian).
The Comptroller race also has five candidates: John C. Liu (Democrat, Working Families), Joseph A. Mendola (Republican), Stuart Avrick (Conservative), Salim Ejaz (Rent is Too High), John Clifton (Libertarian).
Stephen Christopher (Conservative) is apparently closely aligned with the Constitution Party in New York.
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Minor correction, the Party for Socialism and Liberation has existed since 2004.
It will definitely be interesting to see how well all of these minor party candidates do.
So Bloomberg is officially back in the Republican Party now?
Oh, God help us.
Bloomberg is still a registered independent. But in New York and some other states, parties are free to nominate a non-member. The US Supreme Court said in Tashjian v Republican Party of Connecticut that it would violate the First Amendment for an election law to dictate to a political party that the party can’t nominate a non-member.
I thought that recently it was discovered Bloomberg never changed his registration from Republican in the first place. However, he still self-identifies as an independent, of course.
Trent,
Constitution Party members wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between me and one of their own.
S. C.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg talks with reporters at a conference in Los Angeles Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Later Tuesday, Bloomberg left the Republican Party and switched to unaffiliated, a move certain to be seen as a prelude to an independent presidential bid that would upend the 2008 race.