jwz – DNA Lounge: Wherein it’s our birthday

Nov 222024
 

DNA Lounge is 39 years old today, having opened on November 22, 1985! Our oldest known flyer Photos from opening night Our “Legacy” plaque If you’d like us to stick around for the next four decades, or until the oceans boil, the stars weep blood, and the firmament shatters (whichever comes first) then please make a donation or contribute to our Patreon! We’d like to continue to be your port in the shitstorm. Come have a celebratory beverage tonight at our Why 2K party. Seen from this distance the eighties and the oughts are basically the same, right? (Yes, it’s raining. No, you won’t melt.) Also this weekend: Tonight: Why 2k…

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Ballot Access News – Three California Minor Parties File Federal Lawsuit Against Top-Two System

Nov 222024
 

On November 21, three California minor parties filed a federal lawsuit against the California top-two system, a system which has been in existence since 2011. Peace & Freedom Party v Weber, n.d., 4:24cv-08308. The parties are Peace & Freedom, Green, and Libertarian. Here is the 12-page Complaint.
In its almost fourteen years of existence, the California top-two system has barred all minor party members from appearing on the general election ballot, except in races in which only one of the two major parties ran someone in that race. There is only one exception to that statement; in 2024 an American Independent Party candidate for Assembly qualified for the general election ballot, even though there had been candidates…

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