On October 16, a debate was held for all four candidates in the New York city Public Advocate race. Public Advocate is one of the three city-wide partisan elected offices. Many years ago, the name of the office was President of the City Council. The four candidates were the nominees of the Democratic, Republican, Conservative, and Libertarian nominees. The Conservative Party nominee left before the debate was over. See this story.
According to this story, the special session of the Mississippi legislature that is about to begin will not work on restoring the initiative process. The state’s initiative process was eliminated in May 2021 by the State Supreme Court. The article says that the legislature will work on restoring it in the regular session in 2022.
Oregon State Senator Betsy Johnson will soon change her registration from Democratic to independent. She also plans to be an independent candidate for Governor in 2022. See this story. Thanks to Steve Kamp for the link.
On October 15, some Florida voters filed a lawsuit in state court against Governor Ron DeSantis, who has failed to set special election dates for three vacancies in the state legislature. Three Democratic state representatives resigned to run in the upcoming January 2022 election for Congress in the 20th district. Florida law forces incumbents who run for different positions to resign their old office, even before they know whether they will be elected to the new office.
Potential candidates for the three legislative seats have been waiting since the beginning of August for the Governor to set special election dates for the legislative elections. They are afraid that without judicial relief, the seats will be vacant all through the 2022 legislative session, which runs from January through March. The case is Staples v DeSantis, in the 2nd judicial circuit in Leon County.
This news story says that the Byron Brown campaign for Mayor of Buffalo has ordered tens of thousands of rubber stamps, which can be used to facilitate a voter’s voting for him. The election is November 2, 2021. Brown is not on the ballot, even though he is the incumbent.
