No Labels Party is currently petitioning for party status in approximately ten states. Like Americans Elect in 2011-2012, it holds itself out as a supporter of a centrist independent presidential ticket in 2024.

The No Labels website invites people to hear from the group’s leaders. If one clicks on the “play” button, one sees and hears about 65 individuals, one at a time, each expressing support for No Labels and what it wishes to do. Each individual is only seen and heard for about six or seven seconds.

One of the individuals is former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, who was elected Governor as a Republican in 2012. He appears toward the end.

The Atlanta Press Club has invited all three ballot-listed U.S. Senate candidates into its October 16 debate. Also the Merceer University Center for Collaborative Journalism has invited all three into its October 13 debate.

So far, the Democratic nominee, Senator Raphael Warnock, has agreed to participate in these two debates, but the Republican nominee, Herschel Walker, has not.

For the first time in at least a century, a public official has been removed from office for violating the Fourteenth Amendment’s “insurrection” clause. On September 6, a New Mexico state trial court removed Couy Griffin from his County Commissioner post in Otero County. State of New Mexico v Griffin, Santa Fe District Court, First District, D-101-cv-2022-473. Here is the opinion, which is quite detailed in describing Griffin’s actions during the first week in January 2021. He participated in the breach of the Capitol.

Griffin had already filed a federal lawsuit to suspend the state court proceedings, but the federal court had said the federal case is not ripe until and unless Griffin were removed by a state court. Presumably Griffin will now re-activate his federal lawsuit, which is Griffin v White, 2:22cv-362.

Griffin is a Republican. He is not running for re-election. He was first elected in 2018, to a four-year term. Thanks to Political Wire for this news.