Jacobin Magazine has this very thorough and analytical article about the New York Working Families Party and its upcoming decision on whom to nominate for Governor. Thanks to Thomas MacMillan for the link.
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Filing for Democratic and Republican primaries closes in Wyoming on Friday, May 30. So far the only announced Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate, both of whom have filed, are William Bryk and Al Hamburg.
Bryk is an attorney in Brooklyn, New York, who is fascinated by election law. He once served as the Prohibition Party representative to the board of the Coalition for Free & Open Elections (COFOE). The Tenth Circuit ruled in 2000 that candidates for Congress need not be registered voters. Wyoming is in the Tenth Circuit.
Hamburg was the New Alliance Party’s nominee for U.S. Senate in Wyoming in 1988. He polled 868 votes, which was .49% of the total.
So far no one is running in the Democratic primary for U.S. House, or for Secretary of State. No Democrat had declared for Governor, until May 13, when state party chair Pete Gosar said he will run.
Other states with no Democratic candidates for certain statewide office are Alabama for U.S. Senate (and a few statewide judicial races), and Missouri State Auditor.
Wyoming’s two qualified minor parties, the Libertarian and Constitution Parties, nominate by convention. They can wait until mid-August to do that, if they wish.
U.S. District Court Judge Neil Wake will hold a hearing in Arizona Public Integrity Alliance v Bennett, 2:14cv-1044, on Thursday, May 29, at 3:30 p.m. This is the lawsuit, filed by some voters, challenging the Arizona distribution requirement for statewide candidate petitions in primaries. The law says statewide candidates trying to get on a primary ballot need the signatures of one-half of 1% of the party’s members (unless the party is new). That part of the law is not being challenged. But the law also says the petition must meet that standard in at least three counties. The U.S. Supreme Court invalidated county distribution requirements for statewide petitions in 1969 in Moore v Ogilvie.
The California Senate Elections Committee will hear AB 2351 on Wednesday, June 4, at 1:30 p.m., in room 4203. This is the bill that eases the definition of a qualified political party. It has already passed the Assembly. Thanks to C.T. Weber for this news.
According to this Newsday story, the New York Green Party has asked to meet with the Working Families Party, to see if the two parties could jointly work for a gubernatorial nominee other than Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic incumbent who is running for re-election.