The California Republican Party held a state convention in Anaheim, October 20-22. The Resolutions Committee was asked to approve a resolution stating that the party opposes the top-two system, but that committee did not approve the resolution, so that resolution did not reach the floor.
According to this article written by Our American Initiative, and published on Jack News, the web page of the Commission on Presidential Debates no longer lists the sponsors of the debates. That is, the web page doesn’t list any corporations that contributed the money for the 2016 general election debates, even though that same web page had done so in past presidential election years.
Probably the corporations that sponsor the Commission are now aware that the Commission is not very popular, and the corporate sponsors don’t want the public to know of their sponsorship.
According to this story, California Republican Assemblymember Chad Mayes is considering running for Governor in 2018. If he did, he would be one of three high-profile Republican candidates for Governor. As the story says, having three leading Republicans in the race would make it extremely likely that the November 2018 ballot would only list two Democrats.
New Mexico Politics blog has this op-ed by Rick Lass, advocating fairer ballot access laws for minor parties and independent candidates in New Mexico.
Greg Gerritt, a leader of the New England Green Party, wrote a history of the Green Party for the years 2002-2004, called Green Party Tempest: Weathering the Storm of 2004. It is 70 pages and can now be read electronically at this link. Thanks to Jackie Deveneau for the link.
