Indeed, when asked by reporters last week if he still wished to run for mayor someday, Mr. Carrión said he was focused at the moment on being comptroller.
In addition, a number of members of Lula's cabinet were expected to resign their posts by April 2010, a mandatory step for cabinet ministers who wished to run in the elections.
And last Friday a white man in Florida set fire to an Indian-owned convenience store because, he told police, it didn't carry his brand of orange juice and he wished to "run the Arabs out of our country".
Iraq's national security council issued a statement this month saying that all political parties must disband their militias if they wished to run in provincial elections scheduled for October.
Sullivan was the dominant intellectual influence on this issue, from the late 1980s on, and that is from a time where other major civil liberties figures didn't give gay marriage much of a second thought, one way or the other, or they wished to run away from the issue.
If an outfit wished to run fiber into homes and offices, it could, with the certain knowledge that politicians couldn't force it to offer its pipeline to others.
