Tom Del Beccaro has this article in Fox & Hounds blog, about the press conference held in Sacramento on May 11 concerning Proposition 14. The press conference was held to highlight statements of opposition to Proposition 14. Spokespeople for each of California’s six ballot-qualified parties spoke. Approximately 20 to 25 reporters attended.
Port Chester, New York, is using cumulative voting for the first time this year, for Village Trustee. Six at-large seats are to be filled. Voters are free to assign their six votes any way they please. They can give multiple votes to a single candidate if they wish. See this story. Thanks to Third Party and Independent Daily for the link.
The May 12 issue of the Washington Post has this op-ed by Katrina vanden Heuvel, advocating that Congress pass public funding for congressional candidates. The bills are HR1826 and S752.
HR1826 has not gained any co-sponsors this month so far. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
Connecticut Republicans who had filed a lawsuit to keep Susan Bysiewicz off the ballot as a candidate for Attorney General say they will appeal last week’s ruling that said she is eligible. See this story.
A Connecticut statute says no one may run for Attorney General who has not engaged in the “active practice” of law for the past ten years. Bysiewicz is the state’s Secretary of State. She is an attorney.
POLITICO has this exclusive story, predicting that the Republican National Committee is about to name Tampa as the site for the party’s 2012 national convention. The only major party national conventions that have ever before been held in Florida were in Miami Beach. Democrats met there in 1972, and Republicans met there in 1968 and 1972.
