Iowa elects an Attorney General to a four-year term this year. No Republican is running in this race. So far the only two candidates set for the November ballot are the Democratic incumbent and the Libertarian nominee. However, it is possible an independent might file. The petition requirement is only 1,500 signatures, with a deadline of August 17. Thanks to Independent Political Report for this news.
On June 21, Brian J. Herr, who was the Republican Party nominee for U.S. Senate from Massachusetts in 2014, changed his registration from Republican to independent. See this story.
On June 21, Rocky De La Fuente filed this short supplemental brief in the Third Circuit, explain why his ballot access case is not moot. The case involves the law that does not permit primary petitioners to work, unless they are registered into the same party as the candidate. The state had said it would no longer enforce the law, so the Third Circuit wanted briefs on whether or not the case is moot.
The Texas Tribune here has a story mentioning that well-known independent U.S. Senate candidate Jonathan Jenkins didn’t submit signatures on the deadline, June 21.
Earlier this year, the Democratic Party filed a lawsuit against the Florida law that says the nominees of the party that won the last gubernatorial election should be listed first on the general election ballot. The case is Jacobson v Detzner, n.d., 4:18cv-262.
The Republican Governors Association and the National Republican Senatorial Committee have asked to intervene in the case. It seems odd that these bodies don’t trust Ken Detzner, the Secretary of State, to adequately defend his own state’s law, especially as he is a Republican.
