Jack Davis, a former Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in New York, is running in the May 24 special election to fill the vacant U.S. House seat, 26th district. He has just filed an independent candidate petition, with the party label “Tea Party.” He submitted over 12,000 signatures to meet the requirement of 3,500 signatures. New York ballots contain a party logo for each party. The Davis logo is the Liberty Bell, which was also the old logo of the Liberal Party when it was on the ballot 1944 through 2002.

His campaign web page is http://jackdavis.org. He is a wealthy person who won the U.S. Supreme Court case Davis v F.E.C., which struck down the “millionaires’ amendment”. The law that was declared unconstitutional in that case said that when any candidate for Congress spends at least $350,000 of his or her own money, then the ceiling on how much money can be contributed to the opponents in the race is substantially relaxed.