Subject: Re: message from Bill Baroni
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 3/14/2006, 10:59 AM
To: Rick Hasen
CC: election-law <election-law@majordomo.lls.edu>

I don't think that the Cook v. Gralike decision would be controlling on this question.  That case involved congressional races, not state legislative races.  While not directly involving ballot labels, the First Circuit's Daggett case (205 F.3d 445, involving Maine's clean money law) the court found it significant that candidates were not labeled as "clean" candidates, but instead simply as "participating" or "nonparticipating" in the public financing plan.  [Disclosure: I'm advising the California Nurses Association on their proposed "clean money" ballot measure.]
Rick

Rick Hasen wrote:


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Subject: Greetings from new jersey
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:33:07 +0000
From: Bill Baroni <billbaroni@tmo.blackberry.net>
Reply-To: billbaroni@tmo.blackberry.net
To: Rick Hasen <Rick.Hasen@lls.edu> 


Rick:  hate to bother, but I was hoping someone on the list may be able to help. The New Jersey Clean Elections Commision (on which I sit) is coming up with a final set of recommendations on how to improve the legislative clean elections program. One of the ideas being talked of is a ballot designation indicating participating candidates. The inital staff legal review, citing Term Limits, finds it to be unconstitutional. Does anyone on the list know of examplks where positive, non derogatory ballot indices have been upheld or are in use?
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Rick Hasen 
William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law
Loyola Law School 
919 Albany Street 
Los Angeles, CA  90015-1211 
(213)736-1466 - voice 
(213)380-3769 - fax 
rick.hasen@lls.edu 
http://www.lls.edu/academics/faculty/hasen.html 
http://electionlawblog.org