TIME Magazine Interview with Clay Mulford About Mayor Bloomberg

Posted on by January 27, 2008
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The TIME Magazine of January 27 has this interview with Clay Mulford. Mulford was in charge of ballot access for Ross Perot. Michael Bloomberg had met with him earlier in the month, so TIME mostly asked Mulford about what Bloomberg and he had discussed.

The interview is somewhat misleading, because it says that Bloomberg would need 74,108 signatures in Texas. In reality, he would only need 43,991 if he accepted the nomination of any of the three Texas parties that wants to nominate him. Thanks to Earl Divoky for this news.

South Carolina Had no Democratic Presidential Primary in Either 1984 Nor 1988

Posted on by January 27, 2008
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On January 26, 2008, former President Bill Clinton said, “Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in 1984 and 1988.” Here is a video of him saying that:

Clinton’s statement has caused most people to believe that Jesse Jackson won presidential primaries in South Carolina in those years. Actually there were no Democratic presidential primaries in South Carolina in either of those years. Jackson’s success in that state was in caucuses (Jackson was born in South Carolina).

Op-Ed Suggests Political Parties Should Pay for their Own Presidential Primaries

Posted on by January 26, 2008
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As courts continue to support the idea that political parties may run their nominations process as they see fit (even when that conflicts with state law), more observers are starting to question why taxpayers pay for party primaries, especially presidential primaries. Here is another such commentary from Laurence Reisman. He writes for a series of newspapers in Florida’s Treasure Coast (the area north of Palm Beach).