West Virginia State Senator Clark Barnes (R-Beverly) has introduced SB 417, to ease the definition of “political party.” The existing law, ever since 1916, has defined a political party as a group that polled at least 1% of the vote for Governor in the last gubernatorial election.… Read more ...
From the Marshall Parthenon via TPID:
A third-party candidate is seeking to be elected to the U.S. Senate to fill the seat left vacant by Robert C. Byrd. Jeff Becker, the Constitution Party’s candidate for the election of West Virginia’s new U.S. Senator, said he wants to help government make a return to Constitutional values.… Read more ...
Several stories at TPID today about the Constitution Party:
CO-Gov: Progressives Debate Import of Tancredo’s Third Party Candidacy
… Read more ...Over at The Huffington Post, liberal blogger Jessica Corry is making “The Liberal Case for Tom Tancredo.” According to Corry, Tancredo’s victory “could mean a handful of policy goodies long championed by liberal progressives.”
The West Virginia Constitution Party petition for U.S. Senate has enough valid signatures, so the party’s U.S. Senate nominee, Jeff Becker, will appear on the November ballot.
The New York Libertarian Party statewide petition also succeeded. Although someone filed a general challenge to that petition, the challenger did not subsequently follow through with specific objections.… Read more ...
August 23 is the deadline for petitions for independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, for U.S. Senate in West Virginia. The only candidate who attempted to qualify by petition is Jeff Becker of the Constitution Party. It will be several weeks before the state can check the petition to see if he has the required 1,756 valid signatures.… Read more ...
I’m being told that the Constitution Party in West Virginia turned in over 20,000 signatures overall. The Herald-Dispatch recently reported earlier today on how many signatures had been turned in and determined valid.
… Read more ...The Constitution Party has so far submitted 11,314 signatures for its candidates, Chuck Baldwin. Officials had validated 7,442 of those by Friday, with 1,750 more to review.