From Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
On December 6, Randy Fontenot, a registered member of the Constitution Party, defeated his Democratic opponent, in the race for Chief of Police for the City of Eunice. Here are the returns. Scroll down until you see “Chief of Police – City of Eunice”. Because the Constitution Party is not ballot-qualified in Louisiana, Fontenot had no label on the ballot. In the election returns he is designated as an “other” candidate, but that word does not appear on the ballot.
The margin was 59.7% – 40.3%. This outcome was not too surprising, because on November 4, Fontenot had polled 40% in a three-way race, ahead of the second place candidate, who had only polled 23%.
If the Constitution Party increases its registration in Louisiana to at least 1,000, and it then pays a fee of $1,000, it will become a qualified party in Louisiana. As of last month it had 185 registrants.
I think you might be just the person to pull that off.
I think a totalitarian party should be created that would just adopt the platform of the D or R front-runner, much like the visionary vermin supreme has done, but without the obvious parody. Just make calm, cool, collected statements about how total ultimately, the government wants total ownership of all people and property, and that this D and R thing is just a “temporary stepping stone.” Wear a suit and tie, too. That’s very important to the tax chattel “idiocracy electorate.”
I have no problem with the anonymity. As to the facts:
There were two different top two proposals in Oregon. The one that made the ballot was not the relatively good one. The other one failed on the signature gathering end.
being called a loser by an anonymous coward is hardly an insult.
No, the measure that was just defeated in Oregon was the west coast style of top two.
Yes, the CA and Wash. rules are much lamer than Louisiana.
Oregon in November had a ballot initiative to change elections to a Louisiana-style system, however, and many of the commenters on this site and Wingers site were against that as well. Those people are morons and losers.
Mr Winger needs to check his math. If two candidates get 63% in a three-way race, the third candidate is left with 37%. In reality, the primary for this race featured five candidates, not three.
Good point. I haven’t checked if it was four, five or more but I’ll presume you are correct and logically it would have had to been at least four at a minimum.
We’ve been over this. It’s an entirely different system than the one we object to in CA and WA.
Most importantly, Louisiana allows someone to win outright if they get 50% plus one in the first round which makes the first round a real election, unlike the primary in the west coast top two states.
Secondly, that first round is in November, when people actually pay attention to elections, not in the spring or summer.
Make those two changes in CA and WA and many of us would be all for it.
And PS — Mr Winger needs to check his math. If two candidates get 63% in a three-way race, the third candidate is left with 37%. In reality, the primary for this race featured five candidates, not three.
So, that’s two third-party candidates victorious in a top-two jungle primary runoff system.
Where are all the “ballot-access scholars” who insisted this could never happen?
Is either one elected under a party label with the CP?
Randy Fontnot is the second elected Constitution Party official in Louisiana: party member Ronnie Broughton was re-elected to the Webster Parish School Board in November. A parish is akin to county in other states.
I’ll try to make it down that way this weekend…
Thanks Paulie! You too!!!
Thanks Wendy, we got that one… https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2014/12/louisiana-libertarian-wins-a-partisan-run-off/ And keep up the excellent work!
The Libertarian Party did as well. Chad Perry Justice of the Peace, Calcasieu, Louisiana. He was the only Libertarian on the ballot in the nation this past weekend.
With four candidates elected, two head to head, one of them being a run off, plus the highest percentage of votes for a federal candidate.. we believe that the Libertarian Party of Louisiana had the best results in the nation this fall! http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/louisiana-libertarian-wins-runoff-election