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.
Last week, it was reported that no one would be on the ballot in either major party primary in Georgia’s state house district 82. This is because no one had filed in the Republican primary, and filing has closed; and no Democrat would be on because the incumbent Democrat had been the only person who had filed, and then after filing had closed, he withdrew.
But now the Secretary of State has ruled that Democrats will have a special primary on July 20 to choose a replacement. Filing is now open to run in that special primary. Republicans will not be allowed to have a special primary, however. See this story. Thanks to Jason Pye for the link. The regularly-scheduled primary in Georgia this year is also on July 20.
On May 11, the Colorado Senate passed HB 1271 on third reading. Before passing it, the Senate re-amended it so that it matches the version passed earlier by the House. The only difference in the two versions had been the effective date. The final version doesn’t take effect until 2011. See this story.
HB 1271 will now become law, if Governor Bill Ritter signs it. Ritter is a Democrat and the bill had substantial support among Democrats in the legislature, so he is likely to sign it.
Colorado is the only state in which the legislature has passed a bill this year that eases ballot access for minor party and independent candidates. HB 1271 eases the prior disaffiliation period for independent candidates. Assuming it becomes law, California will be the only state in the nation in which independent candidates can’t get on the ballot if they had been registered as a member of a qualified party at some point in the odd year before the election year. And even California doesn’t apply the restriction to presidential independents.
On May 11, the Colorado Senate passed HB 1271 on third reading. Before passing it, the Senate re-amended it so that it matches the version passed earlier by the House. The only difference in the two versions had been the effective date. The final version doesn’t take effect until 2011. See this story.
HB 1271 will now become law, if Governor Bill Ritter signs it. Ritter is a Democrat and the bill had substantial support among Democrats in the legislature, so he is likely to sign it.
Colorado is the only state in which the legislature has passed a bill this year that eases ballot access for minor party and independent candidates. HB 1271 eases the prior disaffiliation period for independent candidates. Assuming it becomes law, California will be the only state in the nation in which independent candidates can’t get on the ballot if they had been registered as a member of a qualified party at some point in the odd year before the election year. And even California doesn’t apply the restriction to presidential independents.
