According to this story, Libertarian U.S. Senate nominee Thom Walker will withdraw and the party will replace him with Mark Fish.
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On August 27, the Maine Ethics Commission revised rules for contribution limits, to take cognizance of the U.S. District Court ruling Woodhouse v Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics & Elections. The court said it was discriminatory to let donors give $3,000 to gubernatorial candidates who run in a primary, and only $1,500 to a gubernatorial candidate who gets on the general election ballot by petition. The new emergency rules let anyone give $3,000 to any gubernatorial candidate. See this story. Thanks to Thomas MacMillan for the link.
The American Bar Association/Bureau of National Affairs Bloomberg publication “Manual on Professional Conduct” for attorneys here takes note of the August 12 ruling in the Ohio Libertarian Party ballot access case. The journal reported that a U.S. District Court Magistrate had ruled that the Libertarian Party is entitled to know who paid the legal fees for the individual who challenged the party’s primary ballot access petitions for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General.
The Chicago Sun Times of August 26 has this article about the ties between the Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate, Bruce Rauner, and the security firm hired to persuade Libertarian petitioners and petition signers to recant.
The Wyoming Secretary of State has determined that two statewide independent candidates have enough valid signatures and will appear on the ballot. They are Curt Gottshall for U.S. Senate, and Don Wills for Governor.
The two candidates are not associated together. Gottshall is the first independent candidate for U.S. Senate from Wyoming since 1924. Wills in the first independent candidate for Wyoming Governor to appear on the ballot since 1958. Here is Gottshall’s campaign web page. Here is Wills’ campaign web page.