This New York Times story says Governor Scott Walker is about to drop out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Thanks to Political Wire for the link.
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Casey Seiler has this interesting analysis of the legal problems of the Women’s Equality Party, in the Albany, New York Times Union. Seiler suggests that the Attorney General and the Comptroller both have motives for their refusal to sign any documents that would give the Women’s Equality Party a legitimate set of state party officers.
According to this story, the Working Families Party has endorsed a member of the Green Party, for City Council district 1 in Troy, New York.
As reported already, last week a New York state court decision ruled that the Women’s Equality Party has no legitimate officers and therefore no bylaws. As a result, some of the party’s nominees are now being challenged. For example, see this story.
John Pickerill is the chairman of the Montgomery County, Indiana, Republican Party. In this op-ed in the Journal Register of Crawfordsville, he condemns Indiana election laws that give special powers to the two largest political parties. He could have mentioned the straight-ticket device, and the law that gives the two major parties the top spots on the ballot, and the ballot access laws, but he didn’t mention those points.
Montgomery County is in west central Indiana; Crawfordsville is the county seat. The county has a population of 38,124.