The December 2006 issue of New York Magazine cover story is about New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s interest in running for president in 2008, outside the two major parties. The article says that Unity.08 co-founder Doug Bailey is “openly courting the Mayor” to seek the Unity.08 nomination.
The December 2006 issue of New York Magazine cover story is about New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s interest in running for president in 2008, outside the two major parties. The article says that Unity.08 co-founder Doug Bailey is “openly courting the Mayor” to seek the Unity.08 nomination.
The Renco Group, which sued the Workers World Party for defamation, has given up its lawsuit. As noted earlier, the Workers World Party and its newspaper won the first round in October 2006, in a lower court. Renco Group is not appealing that decision. Renco Group owns a steel mill. It had sued the party because the party had reported in its newspaper that the company was mishandling pensions for members of the Steelworkers Union.
It seems likely that the incoming Ohio Secretary of State favors liberalizing the Ohio ballot access law. There is reason to believe that she will not appeal the September 2006 decision of the 6th circuit that held Ohio’s law unconstitutional.
For the first time, the Alabama Secretary of State’s official election returns include all write-in votes. Alabama is one of the few states that permits write-ins in general elections, yet doesn’t have a law that requires write-in candidates who want their write-ins tallied to file a declaration of write-in candidacy. Therefore, the Secretary of State had no discretion, and showed all write-ins for all offices. The listing occupies 274 pages.
Loretta Nall, the only known declared write-in candidate for any statewide office, appears to have been credited with 235 write-ins. One must find her tally in each county’s report and do the addition oneself, to know this figure. She was the Libertarian Party nominee for Governor.
