Peter Ackerman, founder of Americans Elect and Level the Playing Field, here comments on the February 1 court decision on debates. His commentary, co-authored with the attorney for the lawsuit, appears in Real Clear Politics.
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders was on “Meet the Press” on February 12. He said he is not interested in starting a new party, and says he intends to try to improve the Democratic Party. See this story. Thanks to Irv Sutley for the link.
Zoltan Istvan has announced, via this Newsweek article, that he will run for Governor of California as a Libertarian in 2018.
On Saturday, February 11, each of the three qualified parties in Kansas chose a nominee for U.S. House, 4th district, in a convention. Here is an article about the Libertarian convention.
Here is an article about the Republican convention.
Here is one about the Democratic convention.
Evan Falchuk, the founder of the United Independent Party of Massachusetts, has switched his registration to the Democratic Party. His party became ballot-qualified in November 2014 when he polled over 3% for Governor as his party’s nominee. But it went off the ballot in November 2016 because it failed to run anyone for president, and because it was unable to get its registration up to 1% of the state total. President was the only statewide office up in 2016. The party had only two nominees for partisan office in 2016, both for the state house.
Currently, Massachusetts has three qualified parties: Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican. The Green Party will probably regain its status in November 2018, which it can do by running for one of the six statewide races and receiving at least 3% for one of them.