On June 12, Florida Republicans filed a lawsuit in state court to remove Addison Liberty Patrick, a Libertarian, who is running for Jacksonville City Council-at-Large. Republican Executive Committee of Duval County v Patrick, Circuit Court, Duval County, 16-2026-CA-004155-AXXX-MA. The lawsuit says he hasn’t been a registered member of the Libertarian Party for the last year.
In response, Patrick argues that the law does not relate to elections like the Jacksonville election. The Jacksonville is really more like a non-partisan election, except that party labels are printed on the ballot showing the candidate’s party membership. UPDATE: the case has a hearing on Wednesday, July 1.
“Libertarian” but in reality a communist.
Hi! Thank you so much for sharing!
-MS. Addison Liberty Patrick 🙂
Political parties should be allowed to nominate any eligible candidates of their choice. Whether or not the candidate is a member of that party should be solely the concern of that party, and not any other.
In fact, if a party wants, they should be able to nominate the candidate of another party. Fusion is an associational right of any political party.
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=156950
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/26/trump-midterm-message-communists/90714523007/
HOW MANY PRIVATE/PUBLIC COMMIES IN DEVIL CITY ???
TOP OF WASH MONUMENT TO BOTTOM OF WHITE HOUSE SUPER-BASEMENT ???
Is that a man or just a fat ugly woman? Oink!
@RW,
The Duval Circuit Court does not yet have a reply from Addison Liberty Patrick. The timing in this case is a bit odd. This is a special election called to fill a vacancy caused by the incumbent seeking election to the legislature. Patrick had changed her (sic) registration from Republican to Libertarian last November, so unlikely to have been made in anticipation of the vacancy. Elsewhere it is noted that Patrick intended to run for the office at the regular election in 2027.
As the law is written, she could not run as Republican, or as a Libertarian, or as No Party Affiliation (NPA). Preventing a candidate from running at all is likely to have constitutional issues. Perhaps Florida could adopt the practice of California of listing the party affiliation for the last N years. In California N is 10.
The office is partisan. What you meant was that there were no exclusionary partisan primaries in which the state accorded privileged status to certain private political groups.
@WZ,
The Libertarian Party, Republican Party, or any ad hoc group are free to endorse a candidate, provide financial support, plant yard signs, block walk, etc. There is no reason for the state authorities to accord quasi-official status upon private organizations.
@AZ, re: Election Law Blog.
The “new law” clarified that the 365 period was consecutively before the filing period, and not just 365 days sometime in the past. It passed the legislature on 113-0 and 37-0 votes.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/27/us/video/mamdani-pool-jump-suit-digvid-vrtc
TYRANT GUTBOMB FATBALL TRUMP INTO LINCOLN POOL OR POTOMAC RIVER == FLOOD WIPEOUT OF DC / MD / VA ???
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Hopefully the challenge succeeds!
The Clerk of Court in Jacksonville is slow to post to the docket (they cite 3 business days to post). I have posted some of the filings on my website below. We responded last week, and we responded again yesterday. This is unconstitutional. Stay tuned. Court is tomorrow.
You didn’t answer the question
. Are you a man or a fat ugly woman?