This Associated Press story explains that the Minnesota Green, Libertarian, and Independence Parties coordinated with each other, so that they would not run against each other for any statewide office. This was done to enhance the chances that any of them might receive 5% for a statewide race. Getting 5% in any statewide race would make them qualified. Minnesota is one of only 8 states with no qualified parties other than the Democratic and Republican Parties.
The story does not mention that the Legal Marijuana Now Party, and the Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party, did not participate in dividing up the statewide races. The Legal Marijuana Now Party is on for U.S. Senate and Auditor, and the Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party is on for Governor and Attorney General.
I’m surprised they were able to actually do this. In WVa, we’ve tried to have legislative issues meetings with Libertarian, Mountain (Green), and Constitution parties, and it’s always been like herding cats.
Go cats.
What is stopping the Donkey/Elephant super-conspiracy from increasing the percentage to 10-15-20-25-30 ???
ie – have only rigged RED communist and BLACK fascist *choices* ???
Surprised the Repubs and Dems didn’t sue for “Anti-Trust” violations and try to knock all of them off the ballot.
Louisiana and Washington don’t have this problem, and California shouldn’t.
I wonder why?
Jeff, we no longer have the problem finding cooperation as a United Coalition USA. Perhaps look at multiple geo-levels.
We’re ready to collaborate with West Virginia more on 1/1/2019.
The Mid-Atlantic Super-state Parliament:
http://www.usparliament.org/ss4.php
How many election areas in CA, WA and LA with only 2 D or 2 R in Nov 2018 ???
— ie LOTS of NON-votes.
The Herd/Ogle [Libertarian/One] for POTUS 2020 has set up the web site.
In 2012 I was the Libertarian who won the only state primary which fell before the national LP convention but the State and national chairs who were both from the county adjacent to mine didn’t want anyone to know and they bitterly fought, deleted, slandered and blocked us and we won with 52.7%.
Now we are the Libertarian/One because I was the Libertarian who won (Gary Johnson was on the same ballot as a Republican).
The United Coalition USA has approved guidelines for pure proportional representation (PPR) Electoral College linked as item #2 on top navigation bar for every affiliated Usparliament.org web page:
https://usparliament.org/rules.php
From what I hear, the Legal Marijuana Now Party/Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party got snubbed by the other minor parties.
They weren’t snubbed. The meeting began at 4 PM and they both said that couldn’t make it because they had a more important meeting 20 minutes later.
We went to at least two meetings to ask for the two pot parties to participate. Their response – “we’re not really sure we want to have major party status”. We moved on without them. By happenstance Grassroots may back into the needed 5%.
Phillip, good job, working together makes us stronger.
If you are interested in doing more after next Tuesday, the United Coalition USA would like to coordinate better through the PPR Electoral College 2020.
Please feel free to phone or email us if you’re interested in hearing more. We are working with established parties like the Libertarian, Green and Constitution Party executives in California and North Carolina.
Plus we sustain small splinter groups too, like Pot, Marijuana, Environmentalist, Boston Tea, Roseannearchist Parties and more.
http://www.usparliament.org/contact.php