On August 11, one of the Texas independent gubernatorial candidates filed a criminal complaint against the other Texas independent gubernatorial candidate. Kinky Friedman complained about State Comptroller Carole Strayhorn’s use of 18 state employees to help produce briefing papers, and to help edit her speeches. Strayhorn defended herself by saying that these briefing papers would have been produced anyway, whether she were running for office or not. The Texas Government Code prohibits the use of state agency personnel “in connection with a government campaign”. The Travis County District Attorney’s office said it would not act on the complaint until after the November election.

On August 11, the 4 ballot-listed candidates for Colorado Governor debated on TV. The four candidates were the Democrat, Republican, Libertarian and Constitution Party nominees. The debate was sponsored by two TV stations and the Rocky Mountain News.

The Natural Law Party was organized in the United States in 1992, and it ceased to exist as a national organization in 2004. All of its state units will be dropping off the ballot in November 2006, except for the Michigan unit. The Michigan branch of the party is the only one in the nation running any candidates. Because the Michigan procedures for parties to remain on the ballot are quite lenient, it is overwhelmingly likely that the Michigan Natural Law Party will still be ballot-qualified in 2008.