YORTY v. STONE

No. 42045.

259 So.2d 146 (1972)

Sam YORTY and James E. Miller, Petitioners, v. Richard B. STONE, Secretary of State, State of Florida, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

February 22, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Miller, in pro per and for Sam Yorty, petitioners.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Daniel S. Dearing, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Clinton H. Coulter, Jr., Tallahassee, for respondents.


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' Mayor Sam Yorty, to Florida's new presidential preference primary law which places

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