Embattled U.S. Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana attracted two last-minute primary challengers shortly before Friday’s filing deadline. Former Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Chet D. Traylor, who served on the state’s highest court for a dozen years before his retirement in the spring of 2009, unexpectedly filed for Vitter’s U.S. Senate seat…
State Rep. Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte abandoned the idea of running for governor of Florida forty years ago this week. Regarded as one of the most liberal members of the Florida legislature, the 37-year-old Miami lawyer had seriously considered bolting his party in 1970 to run for governor as an independent.
Twenty-five years ago, near the end of his 12-year reign as mayor of Miami, Maurice Ferre compared himself to a surfer, a politician skilled enough to navigate a continually shifting wave…
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for governor of New York, called for a ban on drilling in the Marcellus Shale last week…
Described by columnist George F. Will as the most interesting candidate in the country, Boston University President John R. Silber was drawing a lot of attention twenty years ago this summer…
Citing the experience of 42-year-old Teddy Roosevelt and suggesting that the burdens of the presidency were so great that the nation might be better served by electing a person in their prime rather than someone in the twilight of his career…
Bill McCollum, Rick Scott and Alex Sink may be eating up all the media coverage surrounding the Florida governor’s race, but there are 11 other candidates who qualified to be on the November ballot. The road for the third-party or “no party” candidate is often lonely. There are few party officials, if any, giving you advice…
This week’s Oddball comes from Georgia, a man named Neal Horsley who is running for Governor as the candidate of something he calls the “Creator’s Rights Party” — an entity he’s created. A few years ago, Horsley made national news when, in an interview with Alan Colmes, he admitted to having sex with farm animals when he was younger…
Economist-turned-politician Peter Schiff qualified for the Republican U.S. Senate primary ballot earlier this week, becoming the only active challenger to wealthy wrestling promoter Linda McMahon in Connecticut’s Aug. 10 primary.
Leave it to California, a state with a gaping $19 billion budget shortfall, to spend between $4 to $6 million in a special election only two weeks after the state’s June 8 primary.
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