Daily Kos has this commentary on the new Arizona initiative for a top-two system. The story says that John Arnold, who pumped a great deal of money into the 2014 Oregon initiative for top-two, is also funding the 2016 Arizona initiative. Arnold lives in Houston and is very wealthy.
Charles Wheelan, founder of the Centrist Project, writes here in U.S. News that the U.S. needs a multi-party system. The article is focused on Michael Bloomberg, and Wheelan makes his larger point toward the end of the article.
An earlier blog post said that the California Green Party had asked the Secretary of State to list five candidates on its presidential primary ballot. That was mistaken. The California Green Party won’t decide that until January 31.
On January 26, U.S. District Court Yvette Kane will hear Benezet Consulting v Cortes, m.d., 1:16cv-74. The hearing is at 9:30 a.m. in Harrisburg. The issues are whether the Pennsylvania ballot access laws that were struck down last year for minor party and independent candidates should also be struck down for petitions to get on a primary ballot.
The three laws struck down last year in Green Party of Pennsylvania v Aichele were: (1) the ban on out-of-state circulators; (2) the ban on a voter signing two petitions for the same office; (3) the requirement that each petition sheet be notarized.
On January 20, the Federal Election Commission released $846,365 in primary season matching funds to Martin O’Malley, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. The previous month, he had received $100,000. See this FEC press release.
