On November 24, a Superior Court Judge in Alameda County, California, dismissed the case Cummings v Stanley, on procedural grounds. The issue was whether certain members of the Alameda County Republican Central Committee were validly elected in the June 2008 primary.
Some of the winners, whose names were on the Republican primary ballot for party office, seem not to have met the duration of membership requirement for candidates to appear on a partisan primary ballot. These winners, for the most part, are Ron Paul supporters. The chairperson of the Alameda County Republican Central Committee filed a lawsuit on July 25, 2008, to unseat them. However, the judge ruled that the lawsuit should have been filed within 5 days after the canvass of the primary had been completed. Thanks to the commenter who told me this news. See here for a news story about the decision. The chair had also sued Alameda County’s elections department for not checking the registration history before it placed the candidates on the primary ballot. California law says that no one may appear on a partisan primary ballot if he or she has been a member of any other party during the preceding year before filing.
Self-proclaimed legal expert Paul Cummings thinks the superior court judge “got it all wrong.” He thought Alameda County wanted to hear an unconstitutional neo-con agenda and his Executive Director, Ryan Hatcher, thought they could “swing Alameda County” for John McCain. Meanwhile, the California Republican Party lost every election they targeted, John McCain got an abysmal 19% of the vote, and Judge Roesch threw out his lawsuit! Hey Paul, apparently you have it all wrong! P.S. Socrates believed the first step to knowledge was recognition of one’s ignorance. Maybe you should start from square one….