Nevada held primaries for congress and state office on June 14, 2024.  Three candidates appeared on the Democratic primary ballot for U.S. Senate.  The incumbent, Jacky Rosen, was easily re-nominated.  One of the three candidates was Mike Schaefer, who is an elected official in California.  He is a member of the Board of Equalization, a partisan office in California.

Schaefer was elected to the California Board of Equalization in 2018 as a Democrat, and re-elected in 2022.  He is term-limited so he can’t run for re-election in 2026.  As to why he ran for U.S. Senate in Nevada this month, he enjoys running for office.  He is 86 years old.  No media in California seems to have reported on his Nevada run, but here is a news story from last month from Nevada which did note that he lives in California.  Schaefer got 2.2% of the vote in the Nevada primary.

On June 10, U.S. District Court Judge Melissa Damian, a Biden appointee, enjoined a new Florida law requiring local elected officials to disclose (1) their net worth; (2) the value of their household goods; (3) a description of assets and liabilities of at least $1,000; (4) every source of income in excess of $1,000 along with the name and address of the source of that income.  Loper v Lukis, s.d., 1:24cv-20604.

Here is the order.  Thanks to the Institute for Free Speech for the link.  While the case had been pending, hundreds of local elected officials had said they would resign if the law weren’t overthrown.

This article about the Democratic Party’s plans for a virtual roll-call in advance of the August national convention says that a virtual roll-call is impossible before July 13.  That is because the Indiana Democratic Party won’t have chosen its delegates until that day.