{news} Re: minor parties important change to Nov. 07 election calendar

[David Bedell]

See below for a change in the law which means we need to submit candidate endorsements by Sept 5 to Town Clerks for certain races in New London, New Haven, Hartford, Hamden, and Stamford. Endorsements of petitioning candidates can be submitted until Sept. 12, but we might as well submit them all together.  I submitted endorsements in New Canaan yesterday and will submit in Stamford tomorrow.  I've also posted the current list of candidates at http://www.ctgreens.org/2007candidates.shtml and I believe there will be at least one more nomination in New Haven.

I believe we are giving up the following ballot lines (i.e., if we wish to run for these offices in the future we will need to petition):
Windham First Selectman
Windham Board of Education
New Canaan First Selectman
New Britain Mayor
Meriden City Council
New Haven Board of Alders, Ward 19
Hartford Board of Education
Sprague Board of Education
Canton Board of Finance

As to WHY the legislature changed the law, I can only speculate. I think it has something to do with the major party primaries being on Sept. 11, and they didn't want a losing candidate in a primary to be filed the next day as the candidate of a minor party (Green, CT for Lieberman, Working Families, etc.).  Of course, people like Joe Lieberman or whoever loses this year's Bridgeport mayoral primary can still do that, but only if they do the work of collecting petitions. They can't make a deal to use a minor party's existing ballot line.

David Bedell
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Charlie Pillsbury 
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  Cc: smderosa at cox.net 
  Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 1:02 PM
  Subject: FW: minor parties important change to Nov. 07 election calendar 


  Received from New Haven Town Clerk.  This affects candidates for municipal offices where the Green Party already has ballot status.  

   

  For example, in New Haven, we will have to file our endorsement for Ralph with the New Haven Town Clerk by Wed. 9/5, but for Allan and Daniel, who are petitioning candidates, we follow the same procedure as always of filing the certificate of endorsement with the Secretary of State by Wed. 9/12.

   

   

  To:  ALL TOWN CLERKS

   

  From:  OFFICE OF THE SECRETRY OF THE STATE

   

  Important Change to Election Calendar 

  Effective Immediately

   

  All Minor Parties, now have until only September 5, 2007, to file lists of nominees with the town clerks (not September 12, as stated in the Election Calendar issued before this new law).  This is because Section 12 of Public Act 07-194 amended the deadline date for such minor party nominations in CGS Section 9-452, and made that change effective from passage.  

   

  All Town Clerks should contact any minor parties in their towns to inform them of this change.

   

  Parties petitioning with a party designation, still have until September 12 to file certificates of endorsement of their petitioning candidates.

   

  Thank you for your assistance and cooperation in this matter. 

   


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  From: taffy.womack [mailto:taffy.womack at po.state.ct.us] 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 4:48 PM
  Subject: FW: minor parties

   

   

   

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  From: Pearl.Williams [mailto:Pearl.Williams at po.state.ct.us]
  Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 4:27 PM
  To: Taffy Womack
  Subject: FW: minor parties

   

   

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  From: michael.kozik [mailto:michael.kozik at po.state.ct.us]
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  To: 'Pearl.Williams'
  Subject: minor parties

   

   



   
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