On September 15, 2015, BAN reported here that the Nationalist Times, the party newspaper for the Populist Party of 1984-1994, would cease publication. However, after the paper made that announcement, some donors stepped forward to keep it in business, so it will continue to publish.
On November 3, four Green Party nominees were elected to partisan local office in Connecticut. See this story.
Great Britain holds a public ceremony every year on Remembrance Sunday, to honor British military who died in past wars. Remembrance Sunday is always the Sunday closest in the calendar to November 11, the date of the World War I armistice. Apparently, in 1984, a policy was implemented that leaders of political parties with at least six members of the House of Commons are permitted to lay a wreath. But, no one can find the writing that implemented this policy.
The UKIP, the party that polled the third highest number of votes in this year’s House of Commons election, does not have as many as six members in Parliament, and it has complained. See this story. UKIP asked the Queen to intervene, but she said it is up to the government to decide.
On November 15, Mark Everson dropped out of the Republican presidential race. See this story. He was IRS Commissioner under President Ronald Reagan, and held other high-level jobs in the federal government. But the Republican Party never accepted him as a bona fide candidate, even though he did have campaign offices open in Iowa and New Hampshire. He was not included in any polls or any Republican debates. He was not invited into the Florida Republican Party’s fund-raiser, which meant that he couldn’t be on the Florida Republican primary ballot automatically; instead he would have needed a difficult petition, or a filing fee of $25,000.
On November 5, Tyson Parker filed this reply brief in his lawsuit against the New Mexico law that requires independent candidates to submit a petition of 3% of the last gubernatorial vote.
