On May 24, twelve minor party and independent activists demonstrated in front a Sacramento restaurant. Inside, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared. Guests paid $5,000 each to be at the event, and the money went toward the campaign for Proposition 14, the top-two measure on the June 8 ballot.

The event seemed to attract approximately twenty guests. About half of them accepted an anti-Proposition 14 flyer before entering the restaurant. Two of the guests added that they have no idea what Proposition 14 does. One guest acknowledged that the measure is unfair to minor party members.

The Governor himself seems to have entered the restaurant from a side door that opens into an alley, so he avoided seeing any of the protestors, the signs, and the fliers. Channel 10 TV filmed interviews with some of the protesters.

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.

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.