According to this story, an individual named Kris Van Meteren claims to be the state chair of the ballot-qualified No Labels Party of Kansas, and has nominated some candidates for the legislature.  However, neither the national office of No Labels, nor the Kansas Secretary of State, recognizes him as the true state chair.  The Secretary of State recognizes Glenda Reynolds as the state chair.  Reynolds, and the entire No Labels organization, does not wish to run any candidates.

Van Meteren incorporated the Kansas No Labels Party to bolster his claim to be the party’s state chair, but courts have ruled in some states that political parties cannot be incorporated.

According to a source within the Democratic National Committee, the party expects to nominate for president and vice-president in advance of the Chicago August convention, even though there is no longer any publicly revealed reason to do so.  As already noted, Ohio altered the deadline on Sunday, June 2, so there is no longer any problem with certification deadlines.

Nothing on the Democratic Party’s national website mentions this, and no news story I have found explains why the party is doing this.  Some speculate that the party is afraid of protests at the Chicago convention, so if the party has already nominated with a virtual roll-call, perhaps that might make the convention venue less appealing as a protest zone.

Free and Equal is sponsoring a presidential debate on Friday, July 12, in Las Vegas, at Caesars Forum.  The event is simultaneous with Freedomfest.

Chase Oliver, Jill Stein, and Randall Terry are confirmed.  Invitations have also been extended to Cornel West, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The debate moderators will be Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie, and Free & Equal founder Christina Tobin.  Massie is a Republican who has served in Congress since 2012.