Scott McLarty, media spokesperson for the Green Party, has this essay at Counterpunch. One of the original ideas is that while Bernie Sanders is campaigning, and easily available (at least for New Hampshire residents), he should be asked to take a position on the Commission on Presidential Debates.
It is rare in recent years for mainstream media to cover the political parties in the U.S. that hold themselves out as socialist. But Politico has this major story about those parties, and the Green Party, and how they react to Bernie Sanders’ candidacy.
The Daily Dot, an internet newspaper which runs approximately 50 stories per day, has this story about Rocky De La Fuente. This is exactly the type of publicity that he needs, in order to qualify for the presidential primary ballot automatically in many states, including California, where he lives. It will be interesting to see if the California Secretary of State puts him on the June 2016 Democratic presidential primary ballot. The California law says candidates discussed in the news media go on automatically.
In 1992, when former California Secretary of State March Fong Eu omitted Lyndon LaRouche from the Democratic presidential primary ballot, LaRouche sued and won. And De La Fuente has a stronger campaign, and better relations with the national Democratic Party, than LaRouche had in 1992.
The March 6 Republican Puerto Rico presidential primary ballot has pictures of all the candidates. Thanks to Juan Jose Nolla for this sample ballot. Democrats don’t have a presidential primary in Puerto Rico this year.
On February, the U.S. District Court that is handling the Utah Republican Party’s lawsuit over nomination methods allowed the Democratic Party of Utah to intervene in the case. The Republican Party had opposed that intervention. See this story.
