{"id":12382,"date":"2013-07-11T09:18:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T16:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=12382"},"modified":"2013-07-11T09:18:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T16:18:52","slug":"the-demise-of-the-natural-law-party-has-been-greatly-exaggerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/07\/11\/the-demise-of-the-natural-law-party-has-been-greatly-exaggerated\/","title":{"rendered":"the demise of the natural law party has been greatly exaggerated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to monitor the continued presence of such a thng as the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourcampaigns.com\/PartyDetail.html?PartyID=7\">Natural Law Party<\/a>&#8221; as a going concern for ballot candidacy existence. \u00c2\u00a0I thought it may have dropped off the face of the earth after Alan Jacquemotte&#8217;s unsuccessful bid in 2010 (who confessed on this blog that his party alignment was purely situational.). \u00c2\u00a0But. \u00c2\u00a0No. \u00c2\u00a0There were three more races in Michigan in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; Your 2012 candidates&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1\/6\/2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourcampaigns.com\/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=507735\">MI US Senate <\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Lost .24 percent &#8230;<br \/>\nThat&#8217;d be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourcampaigns.com\/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=2964\">John Litle<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourcampaigns.com\/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=330279\">Nikki Mattson<br \/>\n<\/a>U of Michigan Board of Reagants&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourcampaigns.com\/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=785803\">.99 percent<br \/>\n<\/a>(Almost into single digits.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourcampaigns.com\/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=79418\">William B Johnson<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourcampaigns.com\/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=752118\">Michigan 11 \u00c2\u00a0.91 percent<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s this notice<br \/>\n<em>Love that the Natural Law Party still exists (and the NLP chairman is running for the Supreme Court as a nonpartisan too).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hm. \u00c2\u00a0Does that count for my purposes here? \u00c2\u00a0I note that William B Johnson&#8217;s page shows him as an &#8220;American Freedom&#8221; affiliation, and his views strike me as not affixed with the Natural Law Party (member of the Minuteman Border Project), meaning yet another situational NLP candidate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been wanting to monitor the continued presence of such a thng as the &#8220;Natural Law Party&#8221; as a going concern for ballot candidacy existence. \u00c2\u00a0I thought it may have dropped off the face of the earth after Alan Jacquemotte&#8217;s unsuccessful bid in 2010 (who confessed on this blog that his party alignment was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12384,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382\/revisions\/12384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}