Fox News has this story about the attempt to qualify the No Labels Party for 2024 ballots, for the purpose of placing a centrist presidential candidate on the ballot. The most interesting news in the story is that No Labels says it would nominate a presidential candidate by convention in the first three months of 2024.
No Labels is very similar to Americans Elect and its 2012 efforts, but Americans Elect used an on-line presidential primary for its process. Ultimately Americans Elect did not run anyone for president in 2012, and it asked states to eliminate it from the ballot. Nevertheless, there were a few candidates for non-presidential public office who ran under the Americans Elect label in 2012 and 2014.
So they’ve raised $42 million already? If true, nothing to sneeze at. Any campaign finance forms filed?
These “No Name” parties are empty vessels. You have to stand for SOMETHING.
The U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, ruled in Unity 08 v FEC that if a new party doesn’t have any nominees yet, it doesn’t need to worry about the federal campaign finance laws.
No Labels has already said what it stands for. It is fairly specific. For example, on abortion, it supports making abortion illegal after the pregnancy is 15 weeks old, but legal if it is earlier than that.
No labels is just a gimmick label similar to adbusters which turned out to actually be a commercial ad brand itself after first pretending to stand against all that. Or occupy wall street which in the final analysis was about getting it’s elites to occupy nice offices on wall street with career path titles provided by wall street firms. There’s nothing new under the sun, indeed. In previous political iterations Americans were not united and didn’t elect anyone. Shocking, I know.