According to this story, the Wisconsin Democratic Party has filed a challenge to the primary ballot access of Tim Michels, a leading Republican candidate for Wisconsin Governor. Candidates for statewide office in Wisconsin need 2,000 signatures to get on a primary ballot. The challenge says he didn’t list his address properly.

A similar problem kept the Green Party off the presidential ballot in Wisconsin in 2020.

The 2022 Wisconsin primaries are in August. Three other Republicans are also running in the primary for Governor. Thanks to Michael Drucker for this news.

On May 29, at the close of the Libertarian Party’s national convention in Sparks, Nevada, newly-elected chair Angela McArdle announced that she is pregnant for the first time.

There have been pregnant governors, and pregnant members of Congress, but this is probably the first such event for the chair of a nationally-organized political party, at least a party that had as many as 1,000 attendees present.

The Charlotte, North Carolina National Public Radio station has this story about Matthew Hoh, the Green Party’s first U.S. Senate in that state.