Tonight 9pm-11pm Central: Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin and Jeff Trigg will share hosting duties this week. From the Green Party of Texas, Deb Shafto for Texas Governor and kat swift join us to. Independent candidates for IL State Rep. Jason Rice and Ted Leverenz. Libertarian State Rep. candidate Steve Funk. Doug Marks, Libertarian for US House. More invited and welcomed.
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Voters have a choice, for me. I am on the ballot for OH 1 US Congress on November 2, 2010. I am the Non-Partisan Independent candidate on the Green Party Ballot.
The Libertarian and Green Parties sued the State of Ohio in Federal District Court challenging the Constitutionality of Minor Party Ballot Access in Ohio. The Court declared the Ohio ballot access laws for Minor Parties to be unconstitutional. The Ohio SOS wrote a directive allowing Minor Parties Ballot Access with the condition that the party file a set of party rules with the SOS. I was a long time OH Green Party Central Committee member. The Green Party Convention voted to endorse me for OH 1 US Congress.
I got the required 25 valid signatures (50 for D and R candidates) and was on the Green Party Primary Ballot for Congress. I won the primary unopposed. I am on the General Election ballot in November. (I would have needed over 2500 valid signatures if I had run as an Independent.)
Great story, but no one is certain if the Green Party will have ballot access beyond the year 2010. The directive gives no indication of ballot access in succeeding years. The OH legislature is playing around with some legislation that may give with the right hand what is taken away with the left hand. They are not likely to pass any law that gives easy ballot access to the minor parties. That seems to be the case and would be in line with typical D and R behaviors in all 50 states.