The Day, the daily newspaper of New London, Connecticut, has this op-ed criticizing the 2nd circuit’s decision of July 13 in Green Party of Connecticut v Garfield.  That decision said it is constitutional for a state to make it completely impossible for the nominee of a new party, or an independent candidate, to obtain any public funding at all, even if that new party nominee or independent candidate raises a large number of small private contributions.  At the same time, the same law gives very big amounts of public funding to any nominee of a party that had polled 20% for Governor at the last election, if that nominee raises a large number of small private contributions.