{"id":182716,"date":"2015-06-23T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/23\/my-bad-bernie-sanders-is-not-going-to-be-ratfed-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2015-06-23T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T00:42:00","slug":"my-bad-bernie-sanders-is-not-going-to-be-ratfed-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/23\/my-bad-bernie-sanders-is-not-going-to-be-ratfed-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"My Bad!  Bernie Sanders is not Going to be Ratf%$#ed in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Last week, I noted that Bernie Sanders&#8217; independent status would <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/sanders-faces-rat-fing-in-new-york.html\">prevent him from being on the primary ballot in New York<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>I was wrong.  It turns out out that <a href=\"http:\/\/ballot-access.org\/2015\/06\/19\/various-new-york-politics-blogs-publish-misleading-information-about-bernie-sanders-ability-to-be-on-new-york-democratic-presidential-primary-ballot\/\">his independent status will not prevent his being on the ballot<\/a>, though there is always the possibility that they will find a different way to ratf%$# his campaign:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Several New York politics blogs and publications have recently said that Bernie Sanders is in danger of being kept off the New York presidential primary ballot because he is not a Democrat and the Democratic Party has the power to keep non-members off its prseidential primary ballot. Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2015\/06\/all-we-are-saying-is-give-bernie-a-chance.php\">the article in Power Line<\/a>; here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2015\/06\/18\/bernie_sanders_new_york.php\">article in Gothamist<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalnewyork.com\/article\/albany\/2015\/05\/8568985\/sanders-could-face-ny-primary-ballot-struggle\">Here is the CapitalNew York story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The articles are incorrect. The Wilson-Pakula law does not pertain to presidential primaries. The Wilson-Pakula law, sec. 6-120, does keep non-members off the primary ballots of parties (unless party committees approve letting them on), but it only relates to offices for which nominations are made. No state\u2019s presidential primary nominates a major party\u2019s presidential candidate. Only the party\u2019s national conventions do that. The candidates in New York Democratic presidential primaries are individuals running for Delegate to the national convention.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My bad.&nbsp; I was wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I noted that Bernie Sanders&#8217; independent status would prevent him from being on the primary ballot in New York. I was wrong. It turns out out that his independent status will not prevent his being on the ballot, though there is always the possibility that they will find a different way to ratf%$# &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1047,1000,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corrections","category-elections","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}