A U.S. District Court heard arguments in Arizona Green Party v Bennett on September 9. All sides are expecting a ruling either on the evening of September 9, or early morning on September 10, according to this story. Maricopa County, which has over half the state’s population, says it must start printing its ballots by the morning of September 10.
On August 31, Citizen Outreach had sued the Nevada Secretary in state district court in Carson City, arguing that Nevada election laws require a new party to submit two separate petitions if they want to be on the ballot: first, a petition for each statewide nominee, due in March, signed by 250 voters; and then a completely separate petition in June, signed by slightly more than 9,000 signatures. On September 9, that case was dismissed on the grounds that it should have been filed months ago. See this story.
The motivation for the lawsuit had been to remove Jon Ashjian from the November ballot. He is the Tea Party candidate for U.S. Senate. However, if the lawsuit had succeeded, the Green Party would also be off the ballot.
Independent Political Report has this story, reporting that Wink Hartman won’t accept the Libertarian Party nomination for U.S. House in the Kansas 4th district.
The Nation magazine carries this article in its September 27 issue, calling on South Carolina Democrats to support Tom Clements for the U.S. Senate. Clements is the Green Party nominee, and the only person on the November ballot for U.S. Senate, other than Democratic nominee Alvin Greene and incumbent Republican Jim DeMint.
KTVK-3, a television station in Phoenix, will host and broadcast a U.S. Senate debate on September 26. It runs between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. without commercial break. It will also be simulcast in Tucson on KTTU, Channel 18. All four ballot-listed candidates will participate. They are John McCain for the Republican Party, Rodney Glassman for the Democratic Party, David F. Nolan for the Libertarian Party, and Jerry Joslyn for the Green Party. Joslyn is one of the Green Party nominees who is actually backed by the Arizona Green Party, not one of the “outsider” Green nominees whom the party is trying to keep off the November ballot.
This is expected to be the only Arizona U.S. Senate general election debate this year.
