No Labels party can't stop Arizona members from running in local elections

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Source: Courthouse News Service

July 11, 2025


(CN) — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday said that No Labels, a centrist political party, can't stop its members in Arizona from competing in local and national elections, even if the party's leadership only wants to field candidates for the U.S. presidency and vice presidency.

In an unanimous decision, the appellate panel reversed a trial judge's permanent injunction that had prohibited the Arizona Secretary of State from accepting so-called statements of interests by No Labels of Arizona members who wanted to participate in last year's primary elections as the party's candidates for a number of local and national offices.

Arizona's interest in ensuring voter and candidate participation in the democratic process, in avoiding voter confusion, and in limiting opportunities for fraud and corruption, outweighed No Labels' freedom of association rights under the First Amendment, the panel said in the ruling written by U.S. Circuit Judge Salvador Mendoza Jr.

"No Labels attempts to assert top-down control by dictating who may be on its ballot," Mendoza, a Joe Biden appointee, said. "But a party does not have 'monolithic control over its own members and supporters.' In fact, we have long rejected the idea that political parties have the right to nominate 'whomever they want, however they want.'"

Read more: https://www.courthousenews.com/no-labels-party-cant-stop-arizona-members-from-running-in-local-elections/

[Buddyzbuddy]

1. Careful what you wish for.

[PSPS]

2. The usual GOP shenanigans -- a fake party

[AZNoLabels]

3. No Labels's First Primary is on Tuesday in AZ-07 Special Election

Our candidate is Richard Grayson, who was the 2014 Democratic Party nominee for Congress when no other Democrat would run against Cynthia Lummis.

[AZNoLabels]

4. Clarification

Of course, Grayson’s 2014 campaign as the Democratic candidate was for Wyoming’s at-large congressional district. Grayson was also a write-in candidate for Congress in four races where Republican incumbents faced no Democratic opponent: he ran against Paul Gosar (AZ) in 2022, Mike Bilirakis (FL) in 1994, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL) in 1996, and Ander Crenshaw (FL) in 2004.

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5. Screw no labels, both sides are not the same.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. I agree

[TomSlick]

7. There are five candidates in the Democratic primary, none of whom is named Grayson.

DU supports Democrats and not third party candidates running against them.

Please delete this post.

[Brother Buzz]

8. Elvis has left the building

Oh, the official write-in candidate on the No Label ballot, Richard Grayson, received a whopping 17 votes.

[TomSlick]

9. Write-in campaigns are rarely successful but damn!

There is no room today in America politics for No Labels. You are either a supporter of the republic or a MAGAt. There is no in between. Even the apathetic are supporting the MAGAts by their apathy.

[Brother Buzz]

10. Doesn't look like even his friends and family turned out for him

Sad.

Write-in campaigns are rarely successful, but damn, phoning in his campaign to DU wasn’t much of a campaign.

This Richard Grayson is a sham third party candidate, and all you need to know is the following Wikipedia entry:

Richard Grayson (born June 4, 1951, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American writer, political activist, performance artist, and perennial candidate most noted for his books of short stories and his satiric runs for public office.

Grayson's fiction is largely autobiographical, or pseudo-autobiographical.

[TomSlick]

11. Years ago, a fellow ran for office in my little community and took a whooping.

Afterward, he was heard to say "If I'd known I had so few friends in town, I'd have been carrying a gun."