The San Diego Union-Tribune has this article about the California top-two primary.
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Barbara Fiala, state chair of the Women’s Equality Party, a ballot-qualified party in New York, is a registered Democrat. This news story says she plans to remain a Democrat. The law will require the Women’s Equality Party to choose someone who is a member of the party by November 2015.
On August 3, Mark Everson filed a formal Complaint with the Federal Election Commission, asking that the FEC rule that Fox News is violating federal regulations by excluding him from the second-tier Republican presidential debate set for August 6. Everson was the IRS Commissioner between 2003 and 2007, and also served in high federal executive office during the Reagan administration. He has been campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination since March 2015. He is one of the 18 candidates listed in the Republican National Committee’s straw poll. Yet he is the only one of the 18 who has not been invited into either one of the Fox August 6 debates.
Fox News originally said candidates had to be at 1% in the polls to join the second-tier debate, but Fox eliminated that rule on July 27. That left no objective criteria for that debate. Yet federal regulations say debate sponsors must use “pre-established objective criteria.” See this story on Hot Air.
Marina Dimitrijevic, a member of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors (a non-partisan elected body) is the new State Director of the Working Families Party. See this story.
The Green Party voted on August 2 over the location of its 2016 presidential convention. Houston was chosen. The party has never before had a presidential convention in the South. Toledo was the runner-up. The dates will be August 4-7, the latest presidential convention of any party in 2016, so far at least.
Past Green Party presidential conventions have been: 1996 Los Angeles; 2000 Denver; 2004 Milwaukee; 2008 Chicago; 2012 Baltimore.