This story describes the many states in which the Democratic Party is trying to keep Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., off the ballot.
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Nevada held primaries for congress and state office on June 14, 2024. Three candidates appeared on the Democratic primary ballot for U.S. Senate. The incumbent, Jacky Rosen, was easily re-nominated. One of the three candidates was Mike Schaefer, who is an elected official in California. He is a member of the Board of Equalization, a partisan office in California.
Schaefer was elected to the California Board of Equalization in 2018 as a Democrat, and re-elected in 2022. He is term-limited so he can’t run for re-election in 2026. As to why he ran for U.S. Senate in Nevada this month, he enjoys running for office. He is 86 years old. No media in California seems to have reported on his Nevada run, but here is a news story from last month from Nevada which did note that he lives in California. Schaefer got 2.2% of the vote in the Nevada primary.
This is another in a series of blog posts that show how the CNN debate criteria for the June 27, 2024 debate would have excluded popular minor party and independent candidates of the past. The print edition of Ballot Access News for June 26, 1996, shows that the Reform Party, or independent petitions supporting Ross Perot, had only been verified in states containing 226 electoral votes, short of the CNN requirement of 270 electoral votes.
Separate from that, even if the Reform Party, or independent Perot petitions, had reached 270, Perot still would not have met the CNN requirements because he was not yet the nominee of the Reform Party, and his nomination was contested. His opponent for the Reform nomination, former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm, was not defeated by Perot until the national party mail-in primary ballot on August.18, 1996.
On June 10, U.S. District Court Judge Melissa Damian, a Biden appointee, enjoined a new Florida law requiring local elected officials to disclose (1) their net worth; (2) the value of their household goods; (3) a description of assets and liabilities of at least $1,000; (4) every source of income in excess of $1,000 along with the name and address of the source of that income. Loper v Lukis, s.d., 1:24cv-20604.
Here is the order. Thanks to the Institute for Free Speech for the link. While the case had been pending, hundreds of local elected officials had said they would resign if the law weren’t overthrown.
Long-time Ranked Choice Voter activist Rob Richie has this opinion piece urging the use of Ranked Choice Voting in U.S. presidential general elections. He mentions the current efforts of Democratic Party leaders trying to restrict choices in the presidential election, as something destructive that would not be happening if the nation used RCV for president.