According to this story, Republicans are spending money in the California U.S. House race, 24th district, to bolster Democrat Helene Schneider and to injure another Democrat, Salud Carbajal. Carbajal is a Santa Barbara County Supervisor and is backed by most leaders of the Democratic Party in the district. Schneider is the Mayor of Santa Barbara. Republicans would rather run against Schneider than against Carbajal.
No incumbent is running in the 24th district, and the district is fairly closely balanced between the two major parties. Four candidates in the race have raised over $500,000. They include the two Democrats mentioned above, and two Republicans, Katcho Achadjian (a state legislator) and Justin Fareed, a 28-year-old who has raised money all over the United States from conservatives. This is a district in which, conceivably, only two Republicans might appear on the general election ballot; or conceivably only two Democrats might appear on the general election ballot. As the story mentions, near the bottom, the technique of one major party trying to influence the balance between two candidates in the other major party has been rare in the past, but is likely to grow more common in top-two systems.
A representative with the California’s Secretary of State Elections Division has made us aware of the State’s rules and so we must create a new plan in California for electing US President. (POTUS=President of the United States).
Under CA’s rules, no write-in candidates for POTUS are permitted as write-in candidates in the general election for ballot-qualified political parties except for the candidate who won that party’s nomination.
For example no additional Republican, Democratic, Green or Libertarian POTUS candidates may run as a write-in in the general election.
Our team may get behind the winners, or we can support an outsider independent.
US Senate candidates Mark Herd (Libertarian) and Pamela Elizondo (Green) are building the team on all levels with Andy Caffrey (Democratic) and myself James Ogle (Republican); county micro-state, mini-state, super-state, national and international, and we are planning to really work hard.
I have been speaking to everyone and we are all in agreement to work on the team.
Our team won’t know which POTUS candidate to support until August 6th when we elect the team.
We’ll elect up to 10,000 consecutively ranked names, of which #1 is President and #2 is Vice President, based on a single stack of correctly marked ballots kept as proof; the 10th USA Parliament.
Starting tomorrow morning we will start to work
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Nobody has it as good as the United Coalition.
The United Coalition:
http://www.usparliament.org
Sorry, I’m not sure the statement by Mr. Ogle is accurate, because according to the California Secretary of State website, a write-in candidate for president CAN file, as late as Oct. 28.
Go to this page, http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/upcoming-elections/june-7-2016-presidential-primary-election/2016-california-election-guide/ and click on “Section 8”, then scroll down to info on “write in” candidate deadline.