On August 28, a former Republican candidate for Congress filed an objection to the New York Libertarian Party statewide petition. In the thirty years that the Libertarian Party has been getting on the statewide ballot in New York, this is the second time its petitions have been challenged (the other time was 1994, when the party initially nominated Howard Stern for Governor, later replaced by Bob Schulz). So far, there are no challenges this year to the other statewide petitions (filed by the Green, Socialist Workers, and Socialist Equality Parties).