On the evening of April 30, the Colorado Senate voted not to consider HB 1299, the National Popular Vote Plan bill. The bill’s sponsor asked the Senate to take the bill off the agenda, since he calculated that if it were considered, it would be defeated. It had passed the House earlier.
Last week, both sides in the Montana ballot access case filed their briefs. Kelly v McCulloch, cv-08-25-BU, challenges the March petition deadline for independent candidates (for office other than president). The deadline had been in June, until 2007, when the legislature moved it to March. Here is the brief of the ACLU. Here is the state’s brief. The ACLU brief is 34 pages long, but has almost 100 pages of exhibits in addition.
The League of Women Voters is holding its state convention May 1-2, at Bowdoin College, Brunswick. The speaker for May 2, at 1 p.m. through 2:30 p.m., is Theresa Amato, Ralph Nader’s campaign manager in 2000 and 2004. Because Amato is about to publish a book about Nader’s 2004 campaign, focusing on the historically unprecedented attempts by the Democratic Party to prevent voters from voting for Nader, it is virtually certain that Amato’s talk will focus on ballot access. The book, to be published soon by The New Press, is titled, “Grand Illusion: the Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny.”
Alternet on May 2 posted this first-person account of the March 21, 2009 bus tour of wealthy business executives’ homes in Connecticut, sponsored by the Connecticut Working Families Party. Mark Ames wrote the piece, and he is a very good writer. His title is, “What Happens When Angry Citizens Crash the Gates of America’s CEO Class?” The subtitle is, “They chicken out at the last minute. Recounting the doomed bus tour of AIG executives’ posh homes in Connecticut.”
Alternet on May 2 posted this first-person account of the March 21, 2009 bus tour of wealthy business executives’ homes in Connecticut, sponsored by the Connecticut Working Families Party. Mark Ames wrote the piece, and he is a very good writer. His title is, “What Happens When Angry Citizens Crash the Gates of America’s CEO Class?” The subtitle is, “They chicken out at the last minute. Recounting the doomed bus tour of AIG executives’ posh homes in Connecticut.”
