John D. Arnold is a Texas resident who was a hedge fund manager for Enron. During 2001, he is credited with having earned approximately $750,000,000 in profits for Enron. When Enron collapsed in 2002, Arnold founded a new company. He is a billionaire. See this wikipedia page about him.

On September 17, Arnold donated $500,000 to a new committee formed to support the Oregon top-two system, Measure 90. The new committee is “Open Primaries Committee”. The president is John Opdycke, director of development at CUIP (the Committee for a Unified Independent Party), which was formerly known as the New Alliance Party.

On October 1, Arnold gave another $1,000,000 to the Open Primaries Committee. Part of the money ($50,000) was then donated to CUIP for “outreach” on behalf of Measure 90. Here is a link to the Oregon state government campaign finance web page for this committee.

On October 8, all four candidates for Governor of Hawaii debated each other. See this story. The four are the nominees of the Democratic, Republican, Independent, and Libertarian Parties.

According to this story, New York will hold a four-party gubernatorial debate on October 22 in Buffalo. Invited are the Democratic, Republican, Green, and Libertarian nominees. Thanks to Gregory Koch for the link.