On the evening of October 5 (Friday), Air America Radio will be hosted by former U.S. Senator, and current presidential candidate, Mike Gravel. Gravel has arranged to have Ralph Nader call in as the special guest between 8:30 pm and 9:15 pm, eastern standard time. It seems inevitable that the pair will converse about the 2008 presidential election.
According to this story, former Georgia Congressmember Cynthia McKinney may yet decide to seek the Green Party presidential nomination. She is currently speaking in the San Francisco Bay Area.
On October 4, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson and U.S. House member Alcee Hastings filed a lawsuit in federal court in Tallahassee, arguing that the Democratic National Committee’s decision to deprive Florida of its national convention delegation violates the U.S. Constitution. The case is Nelson v Dean, 4:07-cv-427-RH. It was assigned to Judge Robert Hinkle, a Clinton appointee. The attorney who filed the case, Kendall Coffey, is a former U.S. attorney. He was also one of the attorneys for Al Gore and the Florida Democratic Party in Bush v Gore in 2000.
Ironically, the hearing yesterday in the U.S. Supreme Court in New York State Board of Elections v Lopez Torres will probably make it more difficult for Senator Nelson and Congressman Hastings to prevail. Even though the U.S. Supreme Court won’t issue its opinion in Lopez Torres for some months, the media reports that virtually all members of the Court seem to feel that political parties should run their own nominations process, will injure the lawsuit filed today.
Click here to read the 67-page transcript of the October 3, 2007 US Supreme Court hearing in New York State Bd. of Elections v Lopez Torres.
At the beginning of the second half-hour of Wolf Blitzer’s “Situation Room” on CNN, he began with the news about Ron Paul’s third-quarter fundraising totals:
Some stunning political news this hour concerning Ron Paul: The Republican presidential hopeful is low in the national and state polls, but now, when it comes to campaign cash, he’s standing very tall.
Ron Paul’s campaign reports that the congressman from Texas raised five million dollars over the past three months. That’s in the same neighborhood as what rival John McCain is expected to report, and it’s five times what former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee reportedly raised. It’s also more than three million dollars more than Paul raised over the first six months of this year. Paul can partially credit his big bucks to a strong following on the Internet.
MSNBC’s Nora O’Donnell seemed astonished at the announcement.
ABC World News Tonight is flying to New Hampshire to interview Ron for tonight’s show. Earlier today, ABC called Ron’s totals “jaw-dropping.”
