Frank McKay, state chair of the New York Independence Party, and a foe of Lenora Fulani and her allies, has sent postal letters to the several thousand newly-elected Independence Party county committee members. As noted previously, the Fulani forces had recruited thousands of people to run for these Independence Party positions in New York city. A county organization that has elected committee members from a majority of precincts in that county cannot be dissolved by the state leadership of the party.
The McKay letter congratulates the newly-elected member, and then suggests that now the newly-elected member is obliged to do volunteer work for the party, ringing doorbells and doing other work. The letter also suggests that if the newly-elected member does not wish to do this work, he or she may return a form in the enclosed self-addressed stamped envelope, declining membership.
It is not yet known if this tactic will prevent the New York city county organizations from retaining enough members to be safe from dissolution.
Those letters were not valid. State election law says they must be sent the the County Chair not the State Chair. So far, 3 of the 5 Committies had their organization meetings. Another is tomorrow.
Sounds pretty sleezy on Mckays part.
This is a little off-topic, but I recall when Lenora Fulani was bad-mouthing “rich white men.”
Then a few years later, she allied herself with Ross Perot, one of the richest white men in America!
It’s a little misleading to say they were “newly-elected.” Many if not most were put on the committees without their full knowledge in order to fulfill quorum requirements of New York election law. The vast majority had no opponents and would never be expected to show up in person at any meeting.
Running and winning my second term as a State Committee Member and At Large member of the Manhattan Executive County Committee, I personally carried those East Side partitions and everyone of my signers knew what they were signing.