Bill
10-31-2007, 08:17 PM
I thought this was interesting, because it's fighting for the legal precedents that would stop the two parties from killing third party campaigns by harrassment thru frivolous lawsuits.
This suggests a measure of hopefulness to third parties of all kinds.
From the great metafilter:
http://www.metafilter.com/66090/Nader-sues-Democratic-Party-for-conspiring-against-democracy
Yesterday, Ralph Nader sued the Democratic Party for conspiring to prevent him from running for president in 2004. The lawsuit alleges that defendants used “groundless and abusive litigation” to bankrupt Ralph Nader’s campaign and force him off the ballot in 18 states, and names as co-defendants the Kerry-Edwards campaign, the Service Employees International Union, private law firms, and organizations like the Ballot Project and America Coming Together that were created to promote voter turnout on behalf of the Democratic ticket. According to attorney Carl Mayer from the team that filed the suit, interviewed this morning by Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman, "what this lawsuit will do, and the importance of it is, is to set a precedent so that the two-party monopoly system that shuts out minor parties in a way that other Western democracies never do, that this will set a precedent to prevent this type of intimidation and harassment.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/31/145208
This suggests a measure of hopefulness to third parties of all kinds.
From the great metafilter:
http://www.metafilter.com/66090/Nader-sues-Democratic-Party-for-conspiring-against-democracy
Yesterday, Ralph Nader sued the Democratic Party for conspiring to prevent him from running for president in 2004. The lawsuit alleges that defendants used “groundless and abusive litigation” to bankrupt Ralph Nader’s campaign and force him off the ballot in 18 states, and names as co-defendants the Kerry-Edwards campaign, the Service Employees International Union, private law firms, and organizations like the Ballot Project and America Coming Together that were created to promote voter turnout on behalf of the Democratic ticket. According to attorney Carl Mayer from the team that filed the suit, interviewed this morning by Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman, "what this lawsuit will do, and the importance of it is, is to set a precedent so that the two-party monopoly system that shuts out minor parties in a way that other Western democracies never do, that this will set a precedent to prevent this type of intimidation and harassment.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/31/145208