The Peace & Freedom Party, which has its own presidential primary in California, will have three names on the ballot: Cornel West, Claudia De La Cruz, and Jasmine Sherman. Thanks to C.T. Weber for this news.
Claudia De La Cruz is the presidential nominee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Here is the campaign website for Jasmine Sherman.
The PFP primary is not binding. The nominee of the party is chosen in August by the state central committee. The primary is March 5.
Texas does not have the statewide initiative or referendum for state laws or constitutional amendments, but it does have provision for a non-binding referendum to be placed on partisan primary ballots. Section 172.088 of the Texas election code requires signatures equal to 5% of that party’s primary vote for Governor, in the last gubernatorial primary. Currently for Republicans, that requires 97,709 signatures.
A group has been circulating a referendum petition intended for the March 2024 Republican primary ballot, that asks if Texas should secede from the U.S. The petition deadline is December 1. It is not clear if the group got enough signatures, but even if they didn’t, the state party committee could also vote to put that referendum on the Texas Republican primary ballot. Thanks to Mike Drucker for this news.
Maine’s Secretary of State has tentatively concluded that Chris Christie doesn’t have the necessary 2,000 valid signatures of Republican registrants to appear on the March 2024 Republican presidential primary. See this story.
This case involves the constitutionality of Texas’ ballot access laws. The Plaintiffs initially filed a lawsuit in US District Court, but lost, except for the issue of electronic signatures, which the judge ruled that the State of Texas had to allow.
The State of Texas filed an appeal in the Fifth Circuit on November 1, 2023 on the portion of the case that it lost, and a response was filed by the initial Plaintiffs in this case on December 1, 2023.
Here is the Brief of the Defendants-Appellants (State of Texas) that was filed on November 1, 2023.
Krist Novoselic’s op-ed in today’s Yakima Herald-Republic is here.
