This original article in the October 7 issue of City Journal explains why the Working Families Party is now the best-organized political party in New York city, even out-organizing the Democratic Party. Thanks to Jack Dean for the link.
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Adherents of the National Popular Vote Plan have hired a lobbyist, in order to get the plan introduced in the Idaho legislature early next year. See this story. Assuming such a bill is introduced, the Plan will have been introduced in the legislatures of all 50 states over the last four years. The bill is law in Washington, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois and Hawaii, but of course it doesn’t go into effect in any state until enough states have signed up.
According to this story, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is threatening to veto all 700 bills on his desk, if the legislature doesn’t come to an agreement on how to reform distribution of the state’s water supplies. Among the election law bills on his desk are: AB 30, to let 17-year-olds register (but not vote until they are 18); SB 34, to outlaw paying initiative circulators on a per-signature basis; and AB 1396, which deregulates the Democratic Party.
The deadline for bills to be signed or vetoed is Sunday evening, October 11.
National Review Online’s editor, Jonah Goldberg, has this editorial in National Review, advocating that the number of members of the U.S. House of Representatives be expanded. Thanks to Michael Warnken for link.
The October 7 issue of the New York Daily News has this interview with Dan Cantor, Executive Director of the Working Famiiles Party.