Connecticut Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz says she will file a lawsuit in state court, seeking a decision that she is eligible to run for Attorney General this year. See this story. She is the plaintiff and the defendants include the office of Secretary of State and the Democratic Party.

Connecticut has a statute that says, “The Attorney General shall be an attorney of law of at least ten years active practice at the bar of this state.” Bysiewicz became a member of the Connecticut bar in 1986, but she stopped practicing law for a living in 1992, when she was elected to the state legislature. She served in the legislature until 1998, and then became Secretary of State.

The ballot-qualified Moderate Party of Rhode Island has announced that it will fill most, if not all, of the statewide state ticket. See this story. Thanks to Nancy Hanks for the link. The Moderate Party is also hoping to get a bill introduced in the 2010 legislature to ease the petition requirement. The party’s bill last year, to lower the number of signatures from 5% of the last gubernatorial vote, to a flat 10,000 signatures, passed the Senate but not the House.