On April 23, a U.S. District Court in Tallahassee, Florida, decided that a jury trial will be held starting June 18, 2007, to help determine who are the legitimate national officers of the Reform Party. The case is Reform Party USA v O’Hara, 4:05cv426. The lawsuit was filed in 2005 by Charles Foster, Ruben Hernandez and Beverly Kennedy in the name of the Reform Party, against three other groups which hold themselves out to be the national officers of the Reform Party.
This lawsuit is probably the first lawsuit in U.S. history in which a court will determine who the national officers of any political party are. There have been hundreds of lawsuits over the centuries to determine who the state party officers are, of various state parties, major and minor. But as far as is known, this is the first such lawsuit over national party officers. Thanks to Jerry Heinemann for this news.
I have been keeping current on this matter by way of this court’s documents on the internet. I have also done numerous searches of the Reform Party by way of yahoo and google searches and have never been able to find any credible information linking Messers Foster, Kennedy, and the hernandez fellow as National Leaders of the Reform Party. All I could find is numerous news articles regarding Chairman Martin, including his election at the Reform Party Convention that Mr. Nader addressed.
It seems that Messer Foster and Co. tried a hostile take over and things are not going well. I also found that this Kennedy chap has a long history of throwing political fits and suing people all over the country in their party. Maybe some of these people should sue her for a change, she seems to be the classic big mouth, know it all bully who sues when she can’t get her way. Glad I am a Independant.
Politics generates this and is pretty much unavoidable albeit undesirable. Messers Foster, Kennedy are reasonable people. Politics has a way of being unreasonable. When threatened rather than roll over they act as do the other alledged Reform Party Messers. The persons you site have been and are Reform Party for me. It will be the court to decide who is who and not based, hopefully on a search of the interent but using presented evidence and live testimony.
I do applaud your independent status.