Filing for Utah presidential primaries closed December 12. Any qualified party is eligible to have a presidential primary, but each party had to affirmatively tell the state elections office if it wanted a presidential primary. The parties that did so are the Democratic, Republican, and Constitution Parties.
Candidates needed a filing fee of $500. No one filed in the Constitution Party presidential primary. The Democratic presidential primary will have 16 candidates; the Republican ballot will have seven. See the list here.
is the CP falling apart?
The Constitution Party of Utah is not accustomed to having a presidential primary, because Utah hasn’t had presidential primaries in recent past presidential elections.
Hmmmm, I thought Don Blankenship would at least file.
It already is Edward; the Oregon, Idaho, and Virginia state affiliates left it.
what causes right-wing paleoconservatives to leave the CP? is this fights over ideas? fights over who gets to be the head honcho?
You should ask John Richard Myers all about it; he left the CP.
J. R. Myers is on the American Independent Party Primary In California. Two CP candidates are also on that ballot. Also the American Delta candidate Rocky De La
Fuente is on the AI ballot along with the Prohibition Party
candidate.
Rocky De La Fuente received the AIP endorsement for House of Representatives in CA CD 21st. That race also
has the Marylander C T Cox who was not an inhabitant of
California on Election Day 2018 and David Valadao who would no vote for the ban on the United States Government paying for transsexual surgery in the amendment to HR 2810 in 2017. This caused the amendment to fail on a 209 – 214 vote.
Ok.
Off the subject Mark, I was wrong about one thing; after some genealogy work on my family tree, it turns out those ancestors of mine that were Jewish actually had the last name of ‘Baltzer’ (not ‘Valentine’), and they were German Jews that immigrated to Canada in the 19th century. However it appears that they were non-practicing and their descendants left Judaism.
Though yes, apparently a lot of distant cousins on my mom’s side are Canadian.