Florida U.S. Senate Candidate Keeps Veterans Party Alive

Posted on by March 20, 2010
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Dennis F. Bradley is the Veterans Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida in 2010. Because the Veterans Party is ballot-qualified in Florida, Bradley will have no trouble appearing on the general election ballot.

Bradley was also the U.S. Senate nominee of the Veterans Party in Florida in 2004. He polled 166,642 votes, 2.24%. He was the only candidate on the ballot in that race, other than the nominees of two major parties, Republican Mel Martinez, and Democrat Betty Castor. Martinez won the 2004 race with a margin of only 82,663 votes.

Bradley’s webpage, www.bradleyforsenate.com, is here. In the 2010 U.S. Senate race, the Libertarian Party also expects to have a candidate, Alex Snitker.

Mississippi Governor Signs Bill Setting a 5 p.m. Deadline for Presidential Elector Paperwork

Posted on by March 19, 2010
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On March 19, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour signed SB 3058. It sets a 5 p.m. deadline for presidential elector paperwork. The old law set the deadline date, but not an hour. This bill only came into existence because of the 2008 incident at which the Secretary of State’s office rejected the paperwork for Brian Moore, Socialist Party presidential candidate. Thanks to Brian Moore for this news.

Ninth Circuit Sets Hearing Date for Arizona Public Funding Case

Posted on by March 19, 2010
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The 9th circuit will hear McComish v Brewer, 10-15166, on April 12, probably in San Francisco. This is the case over certain aspects of Arizona’s public funding law for candidates. The lawsuit challenges the part of the program that provides extra public funding for candidates who have a privately-funded opponent with a great deal of funding.

The U.S. District Court had ruled that part of the public funding law to be invalid. The U.S. District Court had also said that the unconstitutional parts can’t be separated out from the remainder of the program. A majority of Arizona legislators are hostile to the program, so they are not likely to pass any bill repairing the system. This is somewhat different from the situation in Connecticut. In Connecticut, a majority of legislators favor the public funding, so the Connecticut legislature will probably repair the parts that have so far been held unconstitutional.

New Mexico Libertarian Party Finishes Party Petition

Posted on by March 19, 2010
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The New Mexico Libertarian Party believes it has finished its petition to get back on the ballot. 7,500 signatures have been collected, to meet a requirement of 4,151. Assuming the petition is approved, the party will be ballot-qualified in 2010 and 2012. However, another New Mexico election law says that even though the party would be ballot-qualified, it still needs more petitions for all of its nominees, except for the presidential nominee. Those candidate petitions are due in the summer.