On June 29, the Oregon State Senate passed SB 326 again, by a vote of 25-5. It had passed once before but had to get another vote because the House had altered it. The bill is now through the legislature. It repeals the 2005 “primary screenout” and it also legalizes fusion.

A “primary screenout” is a law saying primary voters can’t sign for an independent candidate.

Assuming the Governor signs the bill, Oregon will be the second state to have expanded fusion in the last two years. Connecticut also expanded fusion recently. “Fusion” is the ability of two parties to jointly nominate the same candidate.

Former Libertarian Party presidential nominee Bob Barr has this op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution of June 29, condeming a proposed expansion of the federal government’s terrorist “watch list”.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal political notebook of June 29 has a few paragraphs about Wayne Allyn Root. See here (scroll down). The piece mentions his upcoming book, “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution With God, Guns, Gambling and Tax Cuts.” It also quotes Root as saying he will be the first Nevadan as a Presidential candidate. Actually, 1992 Libertarian Party presidential nominee Andre Marrou was a residence of Nevada, although earlier he had been an Alaskan state legislator.