Bill Redpath, national chair of the Libertarian Party, is in Oklahoma April 10-12. He is lobbying Oklahoma legislators for better ballot access. He is also appearing at a press conference called by OBAR (Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform) on April 12.
The Freedom Socialist Party will hold a national convention July 9-12 at Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington.
The Freedom Socialist Party has not run a candidate for any partisan office since 2004, when it had a candidate on the Oregon ballot for state representative in the 45th district. That candidate, Jordana Sardo, polled 8.9%.
Stewart Alexander, the Socialist Party’s vice-presidential nominee in 2008, has this commentary on California’s Proposition 14 in Indybay, the voice of the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center. It ran on April 9.
Law Professor Mark R. Brown has this op-ed in the April 10 Columbus, Ohio Dispatch. The op-ed concerns the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v Reed, which is being argued on April 28. Brown says that a recent amicus curiae brief filed by Ohio’s Attorney General, and co-signed by 17 other states, is wrong. The amicus argues that the names and addresses of people who sign petitions must be made public, or forged signatures will not be uncovered. Brown rebuts the amicus.
Brown is the attorney who has filed three of the four pending ballot access cases in the U.S. Supreme Court. Brown authored the cert petitions in the Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi ballot access cases. The fourth ballot access case before the U.S. Supreme Court is from Florida. The Court has not yet said whether it will hear any of these four cases.
Christina Tobin has this op-ed in the Sacramento Bee of April 11, on the subject of California’s Proposition 14, the top-two ballot measure.
