No Labels Might Have a Candidate for the Hawaii Legislature

No Labels is a qualified party in Hawaii. Any adult citizen-resident may run in its primary for any partisan federal or state office. Candidates for statewide office and U.S. House need 25 signatures; legislative candidates need 15 signatures.

The Hawaii candidate qualification process is proceeding, and the deadline is June 4. The Hawaii Elections office website has a list of candidates who have taken out petition forms, and who has turned in a petition. Lono Mack has taken out papers to be a No Labels candidate for U.S. Senate. However, he has also taken out papers to run in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. He hasn’t submitted any petition yet. In 2022 he had run for the legisltaure as a Democrat, but he did not win the Democratic primary.

No Labels does not appear to have asked the Hawaii Elections Office to cancel its qualified status. It participated in the drawing last month for ballot position in the primary. Hawaii holds a random drawing to determine the order of parties on the primary ballot. The Green Party won the top spot.

No Labels is in court in Arizona to keep anyone from running in its August primary for Congress or state office. It won in U.S. District Court, but the state is appealing. The state’s brief in the Ninth Circuit is due on May 20 (today). No Labels is also still in court in Delaware over its trademark lawsuit against a group with a satirical website.


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No Labels Might Have a Candidate for the Hawaii Legislature — 2 Comments

  1. Justia says the appellant’s brief was due weeks ago and the reply brief by appellee was due today. Who is the appellant and who is the appellee?

  2. Since Arizona is the party that appealed against a district court ruling in favor of No Labels, I imagine Adrian Fontes (Arizona Secretary of State) is the appellant and No Labels Party of Arizona is the appellee.

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