The California Secretary of State has posted copies of the income tax returns of all sixty-one gubernatorial candidates on her webpage. See the link here. Write-in candidates need not disclose their income tax returns, and in any event the deadline for write-in candidates to file is not until May.

Eight candidates filed an affidavit that they did not file income tax returns in any of the last five years.

No other state requires candidates for any elective office to have their tax returns made publicly available. In California, governor is the only such office. The law for presidential candidates was declared unconstitutional in both federal and state courts in 2019.

This article says that the Alabama Senate is not likely to pass HB 541, the bill to convert Alabama primaries from open to closed.

This news story says the Arizona Independent Party will appeal the decision that it can’t change its name. The ruling yesterday ignored all the precedents from the U.S. Supreme Court about freedom of association. It ignored all the history of parties that have changed their names in the past. Even the two major parties have changed their names in the past, but none of that got into the court’s seven-page decision.

It is the essence of freedom that individuals and groups decide for themselves about their name. Can one imagine a government telling a church that it can’t change its name?