Ballot-access.org notes the encouraging development in an Ohio case, Moore v. Brunner, about residency requirements for petitioners. A Socialist Party candidate named Brian Moore who is seeking to run as an independent candidate in Ohio sought relief against a state law that requires petition circulators to be residents of Ohio and registered to vote in […]

We doubt there are any fair-and-balanced attempts to criminalize signature-gathering for ballot petitions, but we still like NewAmerica.net’s blog post, commenting on one of our own posts:
The leader of the term limits movement and two other organizers of a petition drive [Paul Jacob, Susan Johnson, and Rick Carpenter] in Oklahoma are under state indictment there […]

Paul was interviewed at length recently on The Boiling Point radio show at the University of Chicago. Paul discussed his situation in Oklahoma, as well as the growing attacks on the initiative and referendum process across the United States. You can view the full interview, in three parts, by clicking on the links below.
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The Liberty Papers blog has the scoop about Paul Jacob’s appearance at the convention of the Libertarian Party, which was held in late May. Stephen Littau also taped some of the speech, so visit the site to catch some of Paul’s remarks and learn what Paul told his eight-year-old daughter when she asked him whether […]

Over at Townhall.com, Paul Jacob relates the dirty details of the background to the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the full $84,000 annual pension of multi-indicted former state legislator. (See “Another OK Court Decision?“) The salary of sitting legislators is something less than half that. But Democratic former State Senator Gene Stipe is by […]

We’re not the only ones who noticed what Bob McDowell calls “the ugly head of elected official arrogance” in the debate in the Oklahoma legislature to term-limit state elected officials. In an op-ed for the Tulsa Beacon, McDowell writes:
Our State Legislature has initiated legislation that would direct a vote at the general election in November […]