The long-delayed Tennessee ballot access case complaint has been drafted. It will be filed as soon as the local cooperating attorney is admitted to the U.S. District Court in Nashville. That should happen on January 10 or January 11.
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On January 7, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Swanson v Chapman, the ballot access case filed in 2002. The lawsuit challenged the 3% petition for new and previously unqualified parties, and for non-presidential independents.
On January 7, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Swanson v Chapman, the ballot access case filed in 2002. The lawsuit challenged the 3% petition for new and previously unqualified parties, and for non-presidential independents.
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
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.