Spending for Democratic candidates in the three California U.S. House districts that have Republican members of Congress, but which voted for Hillary Clinton in November 2016, is now at $24,000,000, according to this story. Two-thirds of that total is the candidate’s own money. The three districts are the 39th, 48th, and 49th.
Rocky De La Fuente, who was the Reform Party presidential nominee in 2016, is on the ballot in Republican primaries for U.S. Senate in five states so far, with the possibility of being on in a sixth.
He may also be on the Delaware general election ballot as the nominee of the party he created, the American Delta Party.
This story about the decline of the California Republican Party mentions these facts about De La Fuente. Scroll down. De La Fuente is relevant to the story because California is one of the states in which he is on a primary ballot for U.S. Senate.
Politico has a story by David Siders titled, “The race for Governor has Turned Into a Scam.” The subtitle is “How California’s Democratic Primary Became a Giant Flop.” The story notes that no candidate has captured the imagination of the voters, that only 13% of the voters have seen any of the gubernatorial debates, and that the Democratic candidates have not engaged in a public discussion about issues.”
On June 4, the U.S. Supreme Court did not issue any full opinions on election law. The next opinion day is Monday, June 11. There are five election law cases pending: three redistricting, one on political clothing at the polls, and one on Ohio’s voter purge procedures.
On June 4 the court did decline to accept Scarnati v Agre, 17-1368. This is the case in which Republican Pennsylvania legislators argued that a 3-judge federal court had violated the rights of the legislators by forcing them to produce internal documents about the redistricting process. They did produce the documents, but then they sued and claimed they should not have been forced to do that, under the Speech or Debate Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which protects the speech of members of Congress and state legislatures. Thanks to Rick Hasen for that news.
This Politico story about the California, 39th U.S. House race, says already ten million dollars has been spent, just for the primary.
