The Daily Bruin is the student newspaper at the University of California at Los Angeles. Here is the Daily Bruin’s news story about the Free & Equal festival planned for Saturday, May 10.
UPDATE: the Festival will not go on as planned.
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On March 5, the Missouri legislature passed SB 892, which moves the presidential primary from February to March. Thanks to Frontloading HQ for this news.
According to this Washington Post story, a group appointed by the Republican National Committee is meeting to write new rules for the party’s presidential contest. The group will probably pass a new rule, penalizing Republican presidential candidates who campaign in states that hold presidential primaries that violate party rules.
In the past, both major parties have tried to penalize the state parties in states with too-early presidential primaries, by depriving those states of some of their delegates to the national convention.
The new group will also set new rules for the number and timing of presidential debates for Republicans in primary season.
California election officials send an “Official Voter Information Guide” to each registered voter in California. The pamphlet contains statements by candidates for statewide office, and also has a page which lists which statewide candidates have been endorsed by which parties. Parties are free to endorse members of other parties.
This year, the June 2014 Guide carries endorsements by the Democratic, Green, Peace & Freedom, and American Independent Parties, but has no endorsements by the Republican Party. This Sacramento Bee article interviews Republican Party state chair to learn why.
The only parties that endorsed candidates from other parties are the Peace & Freedom Party (which endorsed two Greens) and the American Independent Party (which endorsed several Republicans).
There is a controversy as to whether the Guide can carry party endorsements for the non-partisan office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. The Guide sent to Orange County voters includes endorsements for a candidate for that non-partisan office made by the Democratic Party, and an endorsement in that race made by the American Independent Party. The Guide mailed to voters in most other counties do not include those endorsements. Thanks to Mark Seidenberg for that information.
On April 25, the Institute of Governmental Studies on the University of California Berkeley campus hosted a four-hour forum on California’s top-two system. Here is a San Francisco Chronicle story about the event. The reporter who wrote the story, Carla Marinucci, was a moderator for one of the panels at the event.