Showing posts with label state and local primaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label state and local primaries. Show all posts
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Pair of Missouri Bills Would Shift Future Presidential Primaries Back to April

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If you followed the saga that was the Missouri state government effort to move the Show Me state presidential primary into compliance with n...

House-Passed Bill in Virginia to Consolidate Primaries in Presidential Election Years to Be Considered in 2013 in State Senate

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File this one under "bills that were active in 2012 and may eventually have an impact on 2016". [ Were being the operative word....
Thursday, March 22, 2012

August Presidential Primary Resurrected in Kentucky Legislation

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FHQ dealt with this in great detail last year when a bill to move the Kentucky presidential primary to August passed the Republican-control...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Conditional on Other States, Colorado GOP May Move Caucuses to February 7

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Ernest Luning of The Colorado Statesman is reporting that the Colorado Republican Party is entertaining the idea of moving up its president...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

New Jersey Senate Unanimously Passes Bill Eliminating Separate Presidential Primary

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The New Jersey state Senate this afternoon substituted A 3777 for the identical S 2883 and then unanimously passed -- by a vote of 39-0 --...
Monday, June 27, 2011

New Jersey Senate Budget Committee Sends Bills to Eliminate Separate Presidential Primary to the Floor

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The New Jersey state Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee this morning voted in favor of S 2883 and A 3777 , the bills that would el...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Alabama Presidential Primary to March 13

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[Click to Enlarge] Lost in the shuffle of all the other bills Governor Bob Bentley signed on June 9 was HB 425 , the bill to move the Alab...
Thursday, June 2, 2011

New Jersey State Senate Committee Votes in Favor of June Presidential Primary Bills

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The New Jersey state Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism and Historic Preservation Committee this afternoon voted in favor of legisl...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Governor Bentley Sends Amended Alabama Primary Bill Back to Legislature

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On Tuesday, May 31, Governor Robert Bentley (R) returned HB 425 to the Alabama state legislature. The move is more of a speed bump along th...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Colorado Presidential Caucuses Move to March 6

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Governor John Hickenlooper on Friday, May 27, signed a host of legislation into law . Among them was SB 189 , a bill that not only moves the...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Alabama Senate Passes Bill to Consolidate All Primaries in March

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UPDATE: Perhaps I was too hard on Alabama legislators in the original update below. As it turns out, HB 425 moves the Alabama primaries to ...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Companion Bill to Eliminate Separate Presidential Primary Introduced in New Jersey Senate

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On Thursday, May 19, Senator Donald Norcross (D-5th, Audubon) introduced S2883 . The bill, like its Assembly-passed counterpart , A3777 , wo...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Missing the Point: A Follow Up on the Bill to Move the North Carolina Primary to March

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As FHQ mentioned earlier today , the North Carolina Senate Judiciary (I) Committee considered S 440 at one of its bi-weekly meetings this m...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Maryland Presidential Primary to April 3

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On Tuesday May 10, Governor Martin O'Malley (D) signed HB 671 , moving the presidential primary in Maryland from the second Tuesday in ...
Monday, May 9, 2011

New Jersey Assembly Unanimously Passes June Presidential Primary Bill

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In the process of clearing its Consent Calendar for the day, the New Jersey Assembly unanimously passed (76 75 -0) without debate A 3777 , t...
Thursday, May 5, 2011

New Jersey Assembly State Government Committee Unanimously Passes Bill to Move Primary Back to June

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FHQ just got finished listening in on the New Jersey Assembly State Government Committee's very quick consideration of A 3777 . The bil...

New Jersey Assembly Committee Set to Examine Moving Presidential Primary Today

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From PolitickerNJ : The Assembly State Government Committee will meet at 2 p.m. to consider legislation (A-3777) sponsored by Assemblyman Jo...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Colorado House Passes Senate Bill to Move Presidential Nominating Caucuses Up

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The Colorado House today passed SB 189 . The legislation not only moves the Centennial state's presidential nominating caucuses from the...
Monday, May 2, 2011

DC to April 3

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Slightly contrary to the immediately prior post , Washington DC mayor, Vincent Gray, signed B19-90 on Wednesday, April 27, moving both the ...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Barring a Mayoral Veto, DC Will Move Primaries to April 3 Tomorrow

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The deadline for Washington DC mayor, Vincent Gray, to act on B19-90 , the bill to move both the presidential primaries and the primaries fo...