Posted on 06/25/2010 10:39:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
...District Judge John Dietz, declaring the money used to collect signatures "an unauthorized, illegal contribution," granted the Democratic Party a temporary restraining order to block Green Party candidates from being certified for the November ballot.
Democrats contended that a petition drive to put Green candidates on the ballot was actually an effort to help Perry, a Republican, by diverting votes from his Democratic challenger Bill White...
It had struggled earlier to get the required 43,991 petition signatures for its candidates to make the ballot. At a hearing Thursday, Green Party member Garrett Mize testified that Perry's former chief of staff, Mike Toomey, paid him about $12,000 to persuade his party to use out-of-state contributions to help the petition drive.
The Dallas Morning News reported this month that an out-of-state corporation with GOP ties paid $532,000 for the petition drive.
"Mike Toomey's involvement in this deal is a watershed today," said Chad Dunn, a lawyer for the Texas Democratic Party. "Rick Perry needs to answer questions about what he knew and when he knew it."
Perry campaign spokesman Mark Miner said, "Our campaign had nothing to do with the Green Party."
...Dietz said he could not stop the Green Party's ballot petition because it has already been delivered to the Secretary of State's Office.
"The cow's already out of the barn," he said.
But he prohibited the Green Party from certifying its list of candidates, which would bar them from the ballot if the Supreme Court agrees with Dietz's order.
Smith said the Green Party's appeal will hover around an interpretation of state law and previous court rulings that "you can't take somebody off the ballot without a full trial."
A trial on the Green Party case is not scheduled to start until January — two months after the election...
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
The Rats (and Comical) are trying to spin the "Perry's black bag op" conspiracy theory. In reality, they are trying to keep the Greens on the Democrat plantation.
We need to support the Green Party. They will effectively split about a third of the Democrats away form their candidates. That’s why the Dems are trying to do them in..............
Dems seem to fine with my stenchy, slimeball, mega POS congressdork Alan Grayson backing a fake Tea Party candidate in his district. Where is the outrage for that?
...the Green Party's appeal will hover around an interpretation of state law and previous court rulings that "you can't take somebody off the ballot without a full trial." A trial on the Green Party case is not scheduled to start until January — two months after the election...
The Democrats were only to happy to cross party lines and see that John McCain was the 2008 GOP candidate. Howard Dean staffers started assisting the McCain campaign going back to 2006. There were McCain campaign workers who switched to the Obama campaign after McCain got the nomination.
The Rats have a judge who is biased in this matter and he has postponed the trial until after the election. Culture of corruption much?
I always thought it ironic that the people who believe the least in the will of the people (democracy) choose to call themselves “democrats.”
They TRY to call themselves the “Democratic” party these days. That’s a laugh.
I vote democratically for the Republicans.
Well, if the Commissioners Court in Harris County votes in favor of a new department and it headed by an “appointed” not elected, Elections Administrator, and the voting operations and voter registration program potentially run by left leaning individuals...
The Harris County’s elections should be in better stead with the democrat party...
That should pretty much sew it up for Texas going blue in November...
Heck, who knows, maybe we can convince Commissioners Court to NOT address the need for this position and extra level of beuracracy until after the election...Maybe enough pressure from Harris County residents might just do it...
Ehhh, I don’t think there are enough of us...
I had 13 people lined up to address this issue when it first came to light, and I was the only one to show up that day to talk about it...
Maybe conservatives should just stay home in November...Sure, we got this election sewn up!!! Nothing to worry about.../sarc
Hope, all the Republicans and Independents leaning towards Republicans come out and vote for Perry in November. Things are getting tighter with White. This is a race we cannot loose. People there, please take it very serious
November isn’t coming. Certainly if executive order routes in AMNESTY. Apathy is rampant because it is so much easier to blog and b!#$!, and count on November, than to actually show up anywhere and defend liberty now, thus, we are in the shape we’re in. Beck must be proud of us, huh? (Hey, I’m as guilty as the next.) We need to be accountable to each other to change the dynamic.
Perry’s numbers fell, White’s numbers didn’t rise.
It depends on whether the base is uninterested (and White can play to the center enough, he’s told a number of untruths on the hype tour).
So what you are telling everyone that if “amnesty” is granted, either by legislative effort or executive order, its over???
November is not a battle we should bother showing up for???
That’s not being very accountable to me, or anyone else is it???
This is the kind of reaction the Bill White crowd loves to instill in the voting constituency...He is notorious for being very nuetral (publically) on issues that would either dilute (or even reduce the turnout) the voting...
He doesn’t give a flip about voter turnout...He only is concerned about getting just that amount to put him over the top...The 40-45% he knows he’ll get means nothing to him...He’s campaining to the 5-7% that will help him beat Perry...That’s it, nothing more...
And who do you suppose that 5-7% is??? Who are those people??? Not the illegals who may, or may not, be granted amnesty...
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