The Peace & Freedom Party recently sent a letter to the California Secretary of State, telling him that the party supports having both Gloria La Riva and Howie Hawkins on its March 2020 presidential primary ballot.
Hawkins is also expecting to be on the California Green Party primary ballot. The Peace & Freedom letter points out to the Secretary of State that there is nothing illegal about a candidate appearing on the presidential primary ballot of two parties. In 2016 the same Secretary of State refused to allow Jill Stein to run in the PFP primary, because she was appearing on the Green Party ballot. Stein wanted to run in both primaries.
It is especially odd for any California Secretary of State to disallow anyone from running in the presidential primary of two parties, given that the election code explicitly allows for presidential fusion in the general election. In 2016, Donald J. Trump appeared on the November ballot as the nominee of both the Republican and the American Independent Parties.
In 2008 Ralph Nader was on the California primary ballot of both the Green and P&F parties.
Is the P&F party affiliated with a national political party?
Remember that the California Constitution recognizes that candidates for president might be recognized in California.
The STONE AGE California Constitution recognizes
all sorts of EVIL super-dangerous stuff–
the various minority rule gerrymander systems – esp for CA Legislature
partisan hack exec/judic officers
lack of total separation of powers
and even the top 2 primary.
Which State Const has THE most EVIL ANTI-Democracy R-O-T ???
@DR,
Michigan is the worst.
Sorry – NO top 2 primary for partisan offices [yet] in Mich.
BUT now has the Mich gerrymander comm copied from CA
with new RCV infection – Eastpointe, MI.
Where is the Texas Const on the worst list ???
Note that Rocky De La Fuente will be on the ballot of the American independent Party of California and the Republican Party. We will know by December 6, 2019 if Donald Trump all made in on the AIP and GOP.