Frederic von Anholt says he will file paperwork on February 18 with the California Secretary of State, in preparation for for his independent candidacy for Governor. The petitioning period does not begin until April and runs through August. He will need 173,041 valid signatures, due August 6. See this story.
As noted earlier, if he qualifies, he will be California’s first independent candidate for Governor to have his name printed on a government-printed ballot. Although two gubernatorial candidates have used the California independent procedures in the past, neither was a true independent. Ed Clark was the Libertarian nominee in 1978, and he used the independent procedure because the Libertarian Party wasn’t on the ballot. Theodore Bell used the independent procedure in 1918, but he was the Democratic Party’s nominee. The 1918 Democratic Party primary had left the party with no nominee, so the party backed Bell and used the independent procedure. The problem the Democrats had in 1918 was that the man who won the Democratic nomination was a registered Republican, but he had also run in the Republican primary and had lost that primary. California law at the time permitted fusion, but someone who lost his own primary but won the primary of another party was excluded from the general election ballot.
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To expand on the 1918 California example, the Dem primary was won by a Republican who lost his primary, and cross-filing did not allow for someone who lost his own party’s primary to win another party’s primary.
What name did Mr. Gabor file under?
When Germany did away with royal and noble titles after WWI, they permitted existing holders to convert their titles into surnames. So that Duke Gene of Earl would have become Gene Duke of Earl, where “Duke of Earl” is a surname.
Is his legal US name, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt? or is it Frederic von Anhalt, with “Prince” as sort of a nickname.
Does California permit a designation of “Husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor” on the ballot?
If he could get all of Zsa Zsa’s ex-husbands to support him, he would win easily.
Miss Gabor is reportedly in poor health. If von Anhalt becomes governor, Arianna “Zsa Zsa” Huffington would make an excellent stand-in for the first lady.
California abolished cross-filing in 1959.
New York has cross-filing, but both parties must approve it. To my knowledge, the last NY candidate to win both major parties’ nominations was Ed Koch, mayor of NYC, in 1981.
Wow! A Imperial again! Last time I recall a Imperial
in California politics was circa 2004. An issue that
Richard Winger may remember in San Francisco Board of
Supervisor meeting on or about December 13, 2004 when the vote came to rename the Bay Bridge to Emperior Norton I Bay Bridge after Emperior Norton I of the United States and the Protector of Mexico, who issued
a Imperial Order to build the Bay Bridge.
Part of that conflict related to the issue raised by an
Alameda County rabbi who took issue with the fact that
the San Francisco Beth Din “Court of Jewish Law” in 1880
would not let Norton I be buried in a Jewish graveyard
because Norton I in addition to declaring himself the
“Imperial Empiror Of The United States” also declared
himself the “King of the Jews”.
One should recall that Sir Francis Drake in 1579 was made King of New Albion (first government of California)
according to a letter addressed to the United States
government from the British Goverment in the 19th Century which was part of the British claim to the “Isle
of St. James” now in the City and County of San Francisco. That claim came about because of a meeting
in the Old Treasury Building in Sydney, New South Wales,
in 1877 on the subject of a Pacific Cable.
It was not until that the Spainish King gave up his claims in favor of United States in 1898 to the islands of the Pacific off the California Coast, did the issue
of the disputed claims to off shore islands limit them-selves to a dispute between the United States and Canada, based on the 1880 transfer of British islands
of North America to Canada.
As to Prince Frederic of Munich, I believe his title like other Imperials are protected under the Laws of
Lichtenstein now, since the Laws in Germany did away with the Imperial titles. I hope this clears up the
issue of titles raise by Jim Riley above. because of the
acts of the German Goveremenent in 1918.
Related to the general topic is the status of Barack H.
Obama, who’s pateral grandfather in circa 1919 was naturalized in Zanzibar under the “Zanzibar Nationality
Decree”, thereby making his grandson at birth a Subject
of the Sultan of Zanzibar, upon his (Barack H. Obama II’s birth on August 4, 1961) grandson who under the “British National Act 1948” also became at birth a
“British Protected Person”.
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American Independent Party