Political scientist Eric McGhee has this article posted at Mischiefs of Faction. It presents his research on whether the top-two system has caused Democrats in the California legislature to be more pro-business. He concludes that there is no evidence that top-two has changed the behavior of Democratic legislators, relative to business interests.
Utah Representative John Cox (R-Ephraim) has introduced HB 329, which moves the presidential primary from February to the 4th Tuesday in March. Thanks to Josh Putnam for this news.
Amanda Swafford and other Georgia Libertarians have set up this web page and crowd source page to advance the Georgia ballot access bill.
The Ledger-Enquirer, daily newspaper in Columbus, Georgia, has this editorial about HB 58, the bill to improve Georgia ballot access for district and partisan county office.
U.S. District Court Judge Jack Weinstein is hearing oral arguments in Rossito-Canty v Cuomo on Friday morning, February 13. See this story. The issue is whether the U.S. Constitution requires Governor Cuomo to call a special election to fill the vacant U.S. House seat, 11th district. Check back for updates in a few hours. Here is a Courthouse News Service article that describes the arguments Governor Cuomo has made to the court in his written brief.
UPDATE: here is an account of the oral argument.
Here is an editorial in the Staten Island Advance, published February 12, which criticizes the Governor for having failed to set a date for the special election so far.
