Norwich, like all Connecticut municipalities, uses partisan elections for its city elections. On the evening of October 23, the Republican Mayor, who is running for re-election on November 5, debated his Democratic and Libertarian opponents. The debate can be watched at this link.
Norwich is also electing six city council members. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are each running four nominees; the Libertarian Party has five nominees. One can see the Norwich ballot here.
On October 23, the plaintiff who had challenged Columbus (Ohio) State Community College’s rules for free speech activity on campus settled his lawsuit. The college, which formerly only permitted leafleting, petitioning, and other First Amendment activity at two tiny areas amounting to less than 1% of the campus, has agreed to change its rules and permit this activity on most outdoor areas of the campus. Here is the settlement agreement. The case had been Anderson v Harrison, 2:13cv838, s.d. Here is a story about the settlement. Thanks to Alliance Alert for the link.
Attorneys for the Secretary of State of Michigan have notified the U.S. Supreme Court that the state expects to file a response to the Michigan Libertarian Party’s brief in Libertarian Party of Michigan v Ruth Johnson, 13-421. The state says it needs more time, and obtained an extension to December 4 to file its brief. The Court has not agreed to hear this case; the briefs at this point are just involved with whether the Court should hear it.
The issue is whether the state should have kept Gary Johnson on the November 2012 ballot or not. The state removed him because his name had appeared on the ballot in the February 2012 Republican presidential primary. The lower courts agreed with the Secretary of State’s decision.
This editorial in The Daily Orange, daily student newspaper for Syracuse University, says that the Green Party’s extensive electoral activity in Syracuse benefits the community.
The Parthenon, student newspaper for Marshall University, has this editorial, suggesting that a new major party is overdue in the United States. Marshall University, in Huntington, West Virginia, was founded in 1837.
