The Florida redistricting case is moving very fast. The trial court wants the plaintiffs to submit their proposed maps of new U.S. House districts by September 14. See this story.
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On September 12, the Labour Party of the United Kingdom released the votes cast for party leader. Jeremy Corbyn won with 59.5% of the vote. The political difference between Corbyn and the former leader of the party, Ed Milliband, could be analogized to the difference between Bill Clinton and Bernie Sanders. See this story. Probably there will not be a general election in Britain until May 2020, because there was already an election in May 2015.
On September 11, Rick Perry dropped out of the Republican presidential race. He had been one of the five debaters set for the CNN September 16 debate at 6 p.m. That should mean there are now only four candidates in that debate: Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, George Pataki, and Lindsey Graham.
There are eleven candidates in the debate set for the same day at 8 p.m. The irony is that the candidates in the 6 p.m. debate will have more speaking time than the “more important” candidates in the 8 p.m. debate. Those times are Pacific time zone. The debates are in Simi Valley, California.
The Mayor of Kingston, New York, Shayne Gallo, is a Democrat, and he was defeated for re-nomination in the Democratic Party primary held on September 10. But he was also a candidate in the Green Party primary. Election officials will soon reveal whether he got enough write-ins in the Green Party primary to be on the November ballot as the Green nominee. See this story. UPDATE: the Green Party write-ins have now been tallied and Shayne Gallo lost the Green Party primary also. His Democratic opponent, Steve Noble, won the Green primary. See this story.
The Kennebec Journal, daily newspaper in Maine’s capital city, Augusta, carries this letter to the editor from the co-chairs of the Maine Green Party. The letter is in response to a newspaper column that accused the Green Party of being ineffectual.