TheGreenPapers.com: Preview Week of 25 April to 1 May 2004
What is new and what has changed at TheGreenPapers.com ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events - Sunday 25 April through Saturday 1 May 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday 25 April 2004 ========================= California Democratic Delegation Meeting This the final step in allocating California's 440 delegates. 5 Unpledged "add-on" delegates are chosen during the Delegation Meeting. http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/P04/CA-D.phtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday 27 April 2004 Pennsylvania Primaries - Polls close at 8:00 PM EDT (0000 UTC) ------------------------- Pennsylvania Democratic Primary 151 of 178 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders based on the results of the voting in today's Pennsylvania Presidential Primary. http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/P04/PA-D.phtml ------------------------- Pennsylvania Republican Primary 62 of the Commonwealth's 75 delegates to the Republican National Convention will be directly elected in a so-called "Loophole" type primary, in which delegates are elected separately from a presidential preference "beauty contest". Voters in each of Pennsylvania's 19 Congressional Districts will directly elect 3 to 4 Republican National Convention delegates. http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/P04/PA-R.phtml ------------------------- Pennsylvania State and Local Primaries Commonwealth offices--- Attorney General: Democrat, Republican Congress of the United States--- U.S. Senate (Class 3 seat): Republican (incumbent) U.S. House of Representatives: CD 4: Democrat CD 5: Republican (incumbent) CD 8: Democrat, Republican (incumbent) CD 9: Republican (incumbent) CD 13: Democrat, Republican CD 15: Democrat, Republican CD 17: Republican ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday 29 April 2004 ========================= District of Columbia Democratic State Committee This the final step in allocating The District of Columbia's 39 delegates. 6 Unpledged "add-on" delegates are chosen during the Committee Meeting. http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/P04/DC-D.phtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday 1 May 2004 ========================= Massachusetts Democratic National Convention Delegate Meeting This the final step in allocating Massachusetts' 121 delegates. 2 Unpledged "add-on" delegates are selected during the Convention. http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/P04/MA-D.phtml ========================= Nevada Republican District Meetings and State Convention (began Thursday 29 April) All 33 of Nevada's delegates to the Republican National Convention are chosen during the District Meetings and Convention. http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/P04/NV-R.phtml ========================= South Carolina Democratic State Convention This the final step in allocating South Carolina's 55 delegates. 1 Unpledged "add-on" delegate is selected during the Convention. http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/P04/SC-D.phtml ========================= Washington Democratic County Conventions and Legislative District Caucuses (began Saturday April 24) Delegates to the State Convention are allocated to presidential contenders in proportion to the percentage of the support each candidate receives during the County Conventions and Legislative District Caucuses. The first time National Convention delegates are allocated is at the Saturday 29 May 2004 Congressional District Caucuses. http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/P04/WA-D.phtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday 1 May - Saturday 22 May 2004 ========================= Minnesota Republican District Conventions Each congressional district will elect 3 National Convention Delegates for a total of 24 delegates. The election dates are Saturday 1 May 2004: CDs 2, 6, and 8 (9 delegates) Saturday 8 May 2004: CDs 4 and 5 (6 delegates) Saturday 15 May 2004: CD 7 (3 delegates) Saturday 22 May 2004: CDs 1 and 3 (6 delegates) http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/P04/MN-R.phtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recap of the past week ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday 22 April 2004 House OKs Emergency Special Elections In Case Of Terrorist Attack on Capitol The U.S. House of Representatives, by a vote of 306 to 97, has approved H.R. 2844, a bill which provides that- in the event that a terrorist attack on the Nation's Capital has left at least 100 of the 435 seats in the House vacant- Special Elections to fill the vacancies must be held within 45 days. The bill now goes to the U.S. Senate for its consideration. Critics of H.R. 2844 are concerned that the bill does not provide for temporary appointments to fill the vacancies pending Special Elections, something which- in all but a handful of States- is allowed as regards vacancies in the U.S. Senate; the fear is that, with such a large number of House seats vacant, the Executive Branch might step in to fill the void via governance by Executive Order. Supporters of the bill counter that it would thwart the intent of the Framers of the Constitution should House members be permitted to serve without having been elected, no matter how temporary the service. There is also additional concern that this bill, should it become law, is unconstitutional as many are of the opinion that only a Constitutional Amendment can properly deal with the issue of the emergency filling of House vacancies. H.R. 2844 is the product of an ongoing study of Continuity of Government which has largely been in response to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 on New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C.; it has been conjectured that the airliner which plowed into the Pentagon was originally destined for the White House and that a fourth jet plane, which crashed in western Pennsylvania, was originally destined for the U.S. Capitol in which Congress meets. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reference Pages ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Major Parties' Presidential Nomination Process (Democrats, Republicans) http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P04/ Elections for Statewide offices and Congress http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G04/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming 2004 Federal and Statewide Primary and Runoff Elections http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/events.phtml?format=chronological ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday 4 May 2004 ========================= Indiana - Primary (U.S. Senate Class 3, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, 9 U.S. House Seats, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction) http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/IN.phtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday 11 May 2004 ========================= West Virginia - Primary (Governor, 3 U.S. House Seats, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Treasurer, Auditor, Commissioner of Agriculture) http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/WV.phtml ========================= Nebraska - Primary (3 U.S. House Seats) http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/NE.phtml =========================================================== |