Kevin Kennedy, a township committeemember in Belleville, New Jersey, has recently registered as a member of the Reform Party. Kennedy was first elected to that position in 1998, and has been re-elected ever since. Before he registered into the Reform Party, he was a registered Democrat. Belleville has a population of 35,926.
According to this story, it is possible Texas will move its primary for U.S. House and state legislative seats to May, even though the state would presumably holds its presidential primary, and its primary for statewide offices (such as U.S. Senate, and partisan judicial races) in March. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
Christine Todd Whitman has told the press that she would be pleased if Jon Huntsman were to seek the Americans Elect presidential nomination. See this story on Politico. Whitman is one of the eight members of the Executive Committee of Americans Elect. The others are Peter Ackerman, Dennis Blair, Stephen W. Bosworth, Kahlil Byrd, Eliot R. Cutler, Irvine O. Hockaday Jr., and Joshua Levine.
The story is also interesting because Whitman talks briefly about her awkward encounters with certain Republican Party leaders, in the days since Whitman joined the Americans Elect leadership.
On November 25, well-known PBS TV host Charlie Rose conducted a 20-minute interview with Elliot Ackerman and Kahlil Byrd, two of the most prominent leaders of Americans Elect. See it here.
At ten minutes into the interview, Rose asks why Americans Elect seems to only be interested in contesting the presidential election. Byrd says that it is quite likely that in 2014 and 2016, it will have nominees for Congress and state office. Thanks to Alex Hammer for the link.
Although Maine’s legislature is not in session, some of its committees are meeting. According to this story, recently the Legal and Veterans Affairs Committee wrote a bill to abolish Maine’s public funding program for candidates for state office. In Maine, legislative committees are Joint committees, composed of members of each of the two houses.
