On August 3, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg declined to give injunctive relief to the Constitution Party presidential nominee, Don Blankenship, in California. Blankenship v Newsom, n.d., 1:20cv-4479. The law required independent presidential candidates to submit 196,964 signatures. The signatures could only be gathered from mid-April through early August, which is entirely within the time affected by the health crisis.
The order says Blankenship could have tried to qualify his party, because a party gets on the ballot by registering approximately 63,000 registered members, and anyone can register to vote, or change party registration, by going on-line. This ignores the fact that in order to motivate people to change their registration, it is in practice necessary for volunteers or paid workers to go out in public and persuade people to fill out a voter registration form showing party membership in the new party. The decision also faults Blankenship for not trying to petition, but he was not nominated for president until May 2. Here is the eleven-page order.
I am not surprised he lost this case.
The case isn’t lost yet. It’s just that he didn’t get injunctive relief. Whether it was constitutional to do what California did still isn’t settled.
Neither am I Andy; I was expecting it.
Wonder if Blankenship would appeal?
I am devastated by this completely unanticipated development. How are the ballot access efforts coming along in the various other less communist republics?
shocked and surprised- Here’s the best guess I can give you. http://www.constitutionparty.com/elections/ballot-access/
The only exception is Vermont and Idaho where they are already on.
If this continues at this pace then Rocky de la Fuente
could overtake Blakenship in the number of states he would have ballot access to. Both Rocky and Don are in contention for American Independence Party’s nomination. It seems that Rocky has an edge over Don in getting the nomination (if Trump does not get it as he did 4 years ago). That despite the fact that AIP used to be part of Constitution party before we seceding several years ago. Nomination will be announced on August 15. Would be interesting to see who would get it.
“It seems that Rocky has an edge over Don in getting the nomination”
Yes since Rocky is sending large sums of money to Mark Seidenberg.
Not just Rocky but quite a few other candidates may end up with more state lines than Blankenship. Obviously Trump, Biden, Jorgensen and Hawkins, likely DeLaFuente and plausibly Kanye West, Gloria LaRiva, Brock Pierce, perhaps another marxist splinter party or two….probably not Tittle though. Most likely not Collins either.
How many states will Blankenship be on? With the lack of successful petitioning along with several states nominating a different Constitution Party candidate this may sink the CP for years to come.
Not yet known but currently my best guess is it’s likely to be high single digits, with a high double digit number of electoral votes potential.
I believe the CP is on 16 states already, plus they just added Vermont and New Jersey..not sure where the others are..I know it won’t be a great year for the CP, but I believe all third parties and independents will have difficulty this year.
This is what happened because he did not pick
Dr. Don Grundmann as his VPOTUS who is the
chairman of the Constitution Party of California.
Wait that was a good thing, who would want to vote for in Dr. Don Grundmann In the Constitution Party?
Back in 2008 Dr. Don Grundmann walked out of the American Independent Party convention in Sacramento
when he was a delegate. Then the AIP Chairman stripped Don Grundmann of all AIP party offices.
Dr. Don Grundmann is a lion of liberty and a protector of women and children and defender of the Constitution and Biblical principles. We should all strive to be like Dr. Grundmann.
Mr. Blankenship is a brilliant and highly ethical businessman who is giving generously of his time and money to make this great country even greater and more pure. He will be on the ballot in most states and voters who do not have them on their ballot should bring their quills and write his name in legibly and correctly upon the official ballot.
Despite the filthy pornographic site with women shaking their buttocks like unladylike animals in heat, your link does contain the truthful and resounding analysis of Dr. Grundmann regarding the idolatrous worship of the golden anus that is all too prevalent in today’s decadent society. As for the young ladies wantonly shaking their bared rumps, I think a bit of time bent over my knee and having those denuded hindquarters introduced to the Board of Education, leather belt, strap, rattan cane, slipper, and the hardcover edition of The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness by Florence Hartley in any order would be most warranted and salubrious.
The good and learned Dr. Grundmann is using honest, not “potty” language, much like the wise and sharp businessman, Mr. Blankenship. Enforcing morals is just a matter of young ladies being placed over the knee of their husband or father, or mine if their families fail to do the job, and being corrected physically until they become corrected mentally and spiritually and embrace proper ladylike behaviour. The same goes for most of today’s youth, male or female, starting with much of the post-WWII baby boom generation and getting respectively worse with every generation thereafter.
I suspect the same remedy ought to be applied to the wayward leadership of any Constitution Party state franchise which fails in its duty of placing Mr. Blankenship as the duly nominated national candidate on their state ballot. It is more than enough that Mr. Blankenship graciously allowed them to use his name as their candidate. He should not have to spend his own money or efforts to do their job of gathering signatures, nor his time dealing with wayward state affiliates which fail to the unquestioningly and enthusiastically carrying out the direct and firm orders of their national Chairman.
Don Blankenship’s nomination has to be the beginning of the end for the Constitution Party. I’m not surprised they chose him but Charles Kraut would have been a much better candidate, though like Blankenship on foreign policy he’s seems to lean more towards neoconservatism than paleoconservatism.
The CP should just be left to die a slow, peaceful death. However, where will the paleocons go to once the party dissolves? The LP? Or something smaller but more ideologically fit like the Life and Liberty Party.
I do like Mr. Blankenship, but not to the point over that of Rocky De La Fuente. Roque share the concern that the United States needs the rare earth on Greenland that Trump believes is important. However, it was on 13 September 1871 that Greenland became a possession of the United States when Captain Charles F. Hall lead a landing party from the ship USS POLARIS took formal possession of Greenland at Thank-God Harbor in the name of POTUS and the SECNAV.
Unlike some in the NRCC, Rocky does not believe that Greenland should be the 51st State. Greenland with
the OK of the Government of the State of Alaska can be added to Alaska under the terms of Section 1 of the Harrison Alaska Organic Act of 17 May 1884. Senator Benjamin Harrison at a meeting on 17 December 1883 thought Greenland some day might join Alaska. It can happen under the term of a POTUS Execution Order under the terms of a “New Hampshire Plan” as used in
1835 by the State of New Hampshire.
Mr. Lesiak
Where will paleocons go? GOP, mostly. Why wouldn’t they? Trump and long-term trends are making the republicans a paleocon party, increasingly. For those for whom that isn’t happening fast enough or thoroughly enough where will they go? To the four winds.
Some might eschew partisan or even electoral politics. They may focus on religious or cultural pursuits, building like minded local and virtual communities, various pie in the sky secession efforts, militias, lobbying, writing and educational efforts, attempts to purchase an island or conduct a coup in a third world country, perhaps immigrate to Russia, Hungary or some other nation they imagine is governed more in line with their preferred policies.
They will likely continue to have a range of third parties, new as well as relatively more established, to bicker over. They did after all make clymer the cp chair again, although his term may not have started yet. He’ll be there to try to pick up the pieces left in the wreckage from fluckiger and Blankenship. The life and liberty party may continue its fledgling efforts, or other such pop ups, with varying degrees of success.
Invariably, some of them will keep up their unwelcome attempts at staging a hostile takeover of libertarians. It doesn’t matter how thoroughly presidential tickets and national chairs since at least 2012 have told them to buzz off; they are contrarians, and it only encourages them. It’s not impossible that they may yet succeed, thanks to the efforts of the misnamed Mises caucus, and proceed to sink the libertarians much as they have the constitution party.
Personally, I wish they would go blast off in rockets aimed at the sun, collectively wake up to the utter folly of their world view, or all spontaneously combust, but I don’t expect to live to ever see us be that lucky.
Maybe some of them will go to north Korea. I think John above would probably find it to be right up his alley and he probably wouldn’t be the only one.
I don’t see anything potty mouthed in grundmanns golden anus rant either. Unfortunately for grundmanns argument his quote is not from Voltaire but from Kevin Strom, a neonazi pedophile. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/nov/27/cory-bernardi-mistakenly-quotes-voltaire-on-twitter-with-supposed-neo-nazis-line
Grundmann does seem rather obsessed with homosexuals and paedophiles particularly for a man who as far as anyone knows has had no relationships or sexual relations with women.
They will most likely take over the libertarians in 2022 or 2024. Mises cucks outorganize the actual libertarians and make incremental gains every convention. Newer l.p. Members, spoiled by Johnson and Johnson weld numbers, are not prepared for the 0.3 or 0.4 percent Jorgensen will get, and there will be many recriminations. Even something close to or above 1 percent, as unlikely as it is, will have the same effect. Amash, heiss, moleman, Harlos, Smith, woods and the other Smith will move the party to the right or the far right. The cp will also make moves back in their direction as recriminations flow over blankencrap and flunkinger. And as somebody noted above republicans are making more moderate moves in their direction. The future looks bright for Paleolithic troglodytes.