The Idaho Republican Party State Central Committee votes on Saturday, June 15, on a proposed rule change. The rule would require candidates in Republican primaries to get permission from party committees, in order to get on the Republican primary ballot. See this story, which focuses on the intense opposition to the idea from the Republican Governor and a large share of the state’s Republican legislators.

Even if the party passes the new rule, the state election laws would not permit the idea to be carried out. Presumably the proponents of this idea would file a lawsuit to enforce the party rule, since it seems extremely unlikely the legislature would amend the election code to give any qualified party that authority.

The California Green Party’s statewide meeting in Napa, California, will include a panel of Green Party officeholders. Participating in the panel will be the Mayor of Richmond, Gayle McLaughlin; the Mayor of Marina, Bruce Delgado; a Fairfax City Councilmember, Renee Goddard; and a Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner (which is an elected position), Jesse Townley. The panel will be on June 22, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., at Slack Collective Studios, 964 Pearl Street, Suite B. The event is free to the public.

This month, Green Parties in Portland, Maine, and Arlington County, Virginia, successfully qualified local initiatives for the ballot. See this story about the Virginia initiative petition that asks voters if they wish to establish a local housing authority, and this story about the Maine initiative petition for marijuana reform.