Yorty v. Stone

DEKLE, Justice.

Former President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, once said in reference to the political arena that, “If you can’t stand the heat, you should stay out of the kitchen.” Perhaps this observation of that terse patriot of Independence, Missouri, expresses in a sense the answer to the challenge by petitioner, Los Angeles’ May- or Sam Yorty, to Florida’s new presidential preference primary law which places *147on the ballot for March 14, all “presidential candidates who are generally advocated or recognized in news media throughout the United States or in the state.” 1

We recognize…