On May 17, the Wisconsin Elections Commission approved the request of No Labels to cancel its qualified party status. The vote was unanimous.
This is the first time a qualified party has voluntarily canceled its qualified status in Wisconsin since 1946, when the Progressive Party did so. In 2012, when Americans Elect was a qualified party in Wisconsin, it did not ask to be removed. However, no one ran for any partisan office in its 2012 primary.
With Joe Lieberman gone, we have hopefully heard the last of these no-name, no-use, non-party party movements that have only wasted a lot of people’s time and money.
They’ll be back.
Why did they do this again? Was it because they would have lost it without any candidate running this season?
They lost a bet.
@Thecommander Jeff
No Labels is trying to preempt someone they don’t approve of running under their name (compare Darrell McClanahan running as a Republican in Missouri).
They’ll be back, but with a new name.