Texas Democrats Have No Candidate for One Statewide Judicial Race

Posted on by January 6, 2008
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No Democrat filed to run for Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, place 9. This is good news for the Libertarian Party of Texas, since the Libertarian Party does have a candidate for that office. This means it is virtually a certainty that the Libertarian Party will again poll at least 5% for at least one of the statewide races in November 2008. It is not known if anyone filed for this particular office in the parties that hope to obtain a place on the ballot this year: Green, Reform, Constitution, New American Independent, and Texas Independence. UPDATE: no one from the Constitution Party, and no one from the Green Party, filed for that particular judicial office

Socialist Workers Party Announces National Ticket

Posted on by January 6, 2008
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The January 14, 2008 issue of The Militant (newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party) announces that the SWP will run Roger Calero for president, and Alyson Kennedy for vice-president. Calero, 38, lives in New York; Kennedy, 57, in New Jersey.

Calero also ran for the SWP for president in 2004. He was born in Nicaragua. In 2004, in most states in which the SWP got on the ballot, the party was not permitted to list him, since he did not meet the constitutional requirements to hold the office. Therefore, the party used a stand-in. Presumably it will do so again.

Missouri Ballot Access Improvement Bill

Posted on by January 5, 2008
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Missouri Senator Joan Bray has introduced SB 797, to fix a problem with the Missouri ballot access laws for new parties. The existing law has a drafting error. Although in general, new parties need not list their candidates on their petition (they choose them later at a convention), the law requires the presidential elector candidates and the presidential candidate to be printed on the petition. The bill would fix that, and provide that they would no longer need to be listed on the petition. Thanks to Ken Bush for this news.

N.H. Republican Party Won’t Co-Sponsor Exclusionary Republican Debate

Posted on by January 5, 2008
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According to this story, the New Hampshire Republican Party has withdrawn its sponsorship of the January 6 presidential debate in that state. The co-sponsor is Fox News. Five presidential candidates were invited into that debate: Giuliani, Huckabee, McCain, Romney, and Thompson. Since Ron Paul polled more than twice as many votes in Iowa as Giuliani, the exclusion of Ron Paul seems irrational. Fox News has been inundated with complaints. The Fox News person in charge is Terri Everett, phone 212-852-7070. UPDATE: Here is the Republican Party’s statement, posted on its own website.

Thanks to Tony Roza for the news about the Republican Party’s decision to withdraw its sponsorship.