On April 11, the Second Circuit issued an opinion in Gottlieb v Lamont, 22-449. It upholds the Connecticut petition requirements for candidates who seek to get their names on a primary ballot. In Connecticut, only parties that had polled 20% for Governor have primaries; other qualified parties nominate by convention.
The plaintiffs challenged the requirements for legislative candidates, a petition of 5% of the number of registered party members, to be collected in only 14 days. Most Republicans and Democrats who get on primary ballots in Connecticut do not need to complete this petition, because candidates also get on the primary ballot if they get the support of at least 15% of the delegates to a party meeting. In the past, Connecticut didn’t even have procedures for candidates to get on a primary ballot if they lacked 15% support at a meeting, so the tradition of candidates petitioning in primaries is not grounded in Connecticut history. The only reason Connecticut has a petition alternative for primaries is that in 2003, a U.S. District Court issued an opinion forcing the state to add such procedures. That case was Campbell v Bysiewicz. The state did not appeal that case, so the primary petition procedures were added in 2003, but they were very severe. The primary petitions for statewide office require 2% of the number of registered voters in that party, to be collected in six weeks. The statewide primary petition requirements were not at issue in the Gottlieb case.
The Gottlieb opinion is not signed, and will not be reported. It was before Judge Robert D. Sack, a Clinton appointee; Judge Susan L. Carney, an Obama appointee, and Joseph Bianco, a Trump appointee. The opinion says because some candidates have managed to complete primary petitions, therefore it isn’t too difficult. It says that in 2018, eighteen primary petitions succeeded. This is not many, because Connecticut has 186 legislative races every two years.
Does this level of byzantine complexity not set off any alarms bell that something is seriously fundamentally wrong with the entire political system? I started to write American political system, but sadly ours is far too complicated as well.
It seems like the state dropped the ball by not appealing the Campbell v Bysiewicz decision.
Unless the cynical pols there decided that they liked making things more complicated.
TYRANT INCUMBENT GERRYMANDER OLIGARCHS AT WORK –
STOP ANY AND ALL OPPOSITION.
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HISTORY NOTES – EARLY ON CT HAD LEGISLATURE ELECTIONS EVERY SIX MONTHS – MAY AND NOV.
CT HAD FIRST REVISED LAW CODE AFTER AM REV WAR- CIRCA 1784 (AFTER PURGING OUT ALL BRIT GOVT STUFF) –
ABOUT 2 INCHES THICK.
NOT SURE IF A PDF OF IT ON INTERNET.
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APPV
TOTSOP
TWICE A YEAR IS TOO MUCH. ONCE A YEAR IS JUST RIGHT. NOOOOOO LEGISLATURES. PEACE OFFICERS ONLY ELECTED AT PRECINCT LEVEL TO INTERPRET AND APPLY IN THE FIELD A VERY SHORT WRITTEN LAW.
36 STATE SENS – 151 STATE REPS
WHAT KIND OF NEW MATH EQUATION IS THAT??
36 minus 151 = negative 115
Or are these values weighted???
IT DOESN’T APPEAR THAT 36 GOES EVENLY INTO 151,AMONG OTHER THINGS BECAUSE 151 IS A PRIME NUMBER, THUS THE WEIGHTED AVERAGE HYPOTHESIS BECOMES WEAKENED. ARE ACOLYTES OF THE CHAIRMAN ALLOWED TO GET THAT HIGH UP IN THEIR STUDY OF ARITHMETIC???
There have been times when the Phillies have been better than teams such as Yankees, Red Sox, and Braves, but most of the the time they are not top tier. We won’t count the Astro, who should just be launched directly at the sun.
I like the Dodgers again. I finally got over them leaving Brooklyn. I was their biggest fan when I grew up in Flatbush. Now that I’m well on my way to my second childhood and it still doesn’t look like they’re coming back home any time soon I decided to let bygones be bygones.
Enough inside baseball! By my calculations we should stay on subject!
Looking through the above thread I’m trying to decide where to draw the line on which comments are off subject and which are not. Do any straddle the line? Can anyone help me here?
I like porn.
FOR THE TROLLS/MORONS —
36 STATE SENS + 151 STATE REPS = X
SOLVE FOR X AND NOT GET PURGED BY RW ???
Why, is RW secretly Chairman George of the Phillies baseball organization?? Chairman George is the only one I have seen require people to do simple addition or get purged since like 2nd or 3rd grade, I’m pretty sure.
Is asking people to do addition staying on subject? Or, is AZ trying to say that only trolls and or morons would sit here and solve addition problems? Is AZ a troll or moron? Is AZ trying to tell us something about Richard from San Francisco, George from Philly, or for that matter Tony from Long Island or Max from Moscow? So many questions ! How many on subject??
THIS IS A PURGE LIST!
Yes, but what isn’t? And Jeff, I don’t think calling MR. WINGER “Richard from San Francisco” is fair. It’s true that his name is Richard, that’s the city he lives in , and he’s a married or long term partnered gay man. But it’s not fair to compare him to psycho freaks like Tony from Long Island, a convicted chomo who did twelve years in the penitentiary for his crimes, or his good friend Chairman George from Philly or from the Phillies (maybe he lives in the suburbs such as Montgomery or Delaware county or adjacent parts of Delaware or New Jersey and world for the Phillies baseball team?). Chairman George from the Philly area does not answer questions about his orientation, partnerships, religion, how he became a libertarian or got involved in that political party, or what he was politically before that.
World should read works. Ben feels embarrassed so I’m telling u on his behalf and I hope he doesn’t get too mad I told you that.
I’d be embarrassed too. I hope you were properly punished.
Rob,
Who doesn’t? Why state the obvious? Everyone has bodily functions required to survive. Everyone watches porn. There’s no need to talk about it. If you still feel the need to talk about it, maybe see if Dr. Phil or Jerry Springer or his former bouncer want to put you on or something?!
I say bodily functions needed to survive because of your other comment on the comments policy thread , not because watching porn is actually needed to survive. But everyone watches it anyway and don’t even bother trying to deny it. Blind people listen to it. Hellen Keller’s read it in braille. Ect.
What is wrong with people today??
Nothing that a good old fashioned public bare bottom caning wouldn’t fix.
@ Ballplayer and Purple Mike
Subway series this year. Calling it right now.
Ballplayer, why did you mention Red Sucks in the same breath as Yanks and Braves? They’re playing worse than the Phillies. Three possible answers I thought of so far.
1. U Masshole?
2. Nostalgia?
3. In a coma since 2021?
Was AZ cryptically calling for murder above at 1351 hours today?
Quit hating on the Astros y’all just jealous.
https://ballot-access.org/2023/04/15/second-circuit-upholds-connecticut-petition-requirements-for-primary-candidates/#comment-1151706
Death threat?? Alert authorities???
Why is AZ posting the police code for murder?????
He also said something about some guy’s thing being two inches thick in girth . Thank God pics or video did not get posted on this website where children may be reading.
That was at 1058 hours this morning.
He wasn’t posting 187 as the police code for homocide. He was correcting the article where it says the number of legislative races was 186.
He also didn’t say anything about any man’s member being 2 inches thick. He was talking about the thickness of a book. Slow down and read a lil bit slower if you have to. That burger king punch clock ain’t about to go anywhere.
Second coming of Jesus > Second circuit
Subway world series, duh
The comment I referenced earlier on the comments deletion thread appears to have been deleted. It was foul / tmi, so no great loss, but it makes my comment here make less sense since it references something that isn’t there anymore.
How many of these garbage comments are actually from Robert K Stock?
What comments do you think are garbage and why do you think they’re STOCK?
Happy Orthodox Easter. Christ is Risen!