Lance Lehmann, a registered member of the Libertarian Party, placed first on June 5 in the election for Rapid City, South Dakota Board of Aldermen, ward 4. No one got a majority, so he will be in a runoff on June 26. Thanks to Nate Watkins for this news. Rapid City is the second-largest city in South Dakota.
We are sorry to announce that David Bergland has died at the age of 83. He had been battling prostate cancer.
Bergland was the 1984 presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party. He was also the 1976 candidate for Vice-President. He was also a Libertarian candidate for California Attorney General (1974), California State Senate (1978), and US Senator from California (1980).
Bergland was the author of Libertarianism in One Lesson.
h/t Mark Hinkle
Richard Winger is on vacation until June 12. Blog posts will be limited and infrequent until then. If readers have any breaking news that should be posted, please send to Eric Garris at egarris2@antiwar.com.
On May 29, the California bill to require presidential primary candidates to reveal the last five years of their income tax returns was amended. SB 27 now also applies that requirement to candidates for Governor. As before, though, the bill does not apply to write-in candidates.
Scotusblog, the leading blog about U.S. Supreme Court news, has listed Hall v Merrill as one of the two “petitions of the week”. This is the Alabama ballot access case involving special elections for U.S. House. Scotusblog reviews all the cert petitions and identifies those that it believes have a fair chance of being accepted by the Court.
