U.S. District Court Judge Price Marshall, Jr., has set a June 16 hearing in Green Party of Arkansas v Daniels, for oral argument on motions for summary judgment. The hearing is at 9 a.m., in room B155 in the federal courthouse in Little Rock.
The issue is whether a state may eliminate a party’s qualified status after a presidential election, if that party fails to poll as much as 3% for President.
The Texas petition deadline for new parties is May 24. Only one party submitted a petition, the Green Party. The party submitted 90,000 signatures to meet a requirement of 43,991. See this story.
This is only the second time that the Texas Green Party has submitted enough signatures to qualify for the ballot. The first time was in 2000, and the party polled enough votes in 2000 so that it was automatically on the ballot as well in 2002. Parties in Texas must poll either 5% for any statewide race, or 2% for Governor. Parties that get 2% for Governor enjoy qualified status for the next four years, but parties that get 5% for any statewide race only gets qualified status for the next two years.
Nancy Lord is one of five candidates seeking the Republican Party nomination for District Attorney of Nye County, Nevada. She and three others are opposing incumbent Bob Beckett as he seeks his fifth term. See this story. Lord was the Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee in 1992.
There are also two Democrats running in the Democratic primary for the same office. The Nevada primary is on June 8.
Lord lives and practices law in Pahrump, which has become the largest town in Nye County. Nye County is the second largest county in the United States in area, and the county seat, Tonopah, is 167 miles from Pahrump. Nye County contains the location of the test site from the 1950’s for U.S. atomic weapons development.
George Phillies, a candidate for national chair of the Libertarian Party, appears in this podcast, publicizing California’s Proposition 14 and also explaining how residents of any state are free to help make telephone calls to California voters. Independent Political Report has the podcast here.
Anyone who lives anywhere is free to contact Beau Cain, manager of the California Libertarian Party office, to participate, according to the podcast. Contact Beau at 877-884-1776.
The forces in favor of Proposition 14 have raised $4,700,000. They are running thousands of radio ads telling voters that “special interests” are opposed to Proposition 14. One hopes, radio listeners who have heard to pro-Proposition 14 ad innumerable times will wonder who is paying for the ads if the “special interests” are against Prop. 14.
The Vacaville Reporter, daily newspaper for Vacaville, Solano County, California, recommends a “No” vote on Proposition 14 in this editorial.
