On October 6, Raymond B. Harding, former leader of the New York Liberal Party, plead guilty to receiving $800,000 from a state pension fund, in exchange for favors done for New York state’s former Controller. See this New York Times story. The Liberal Party went off the ballot in November 2002, after having been on every statewide ballot in the state starting in 1944. Thanks to Bill Van Allen for this news.
opportunity to ballot parties (OTB petitioning for every office being contested in every election cycle) help prevent the Ray Hardings of the world from selling the nominations for personal gain.
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Please have Bill Van Allen contact me at my e mail address. I’d like to discuss OTB and it’s uses/ramifications.
I’ve used it successfully.
Thanks
Ray Harding was the Liberal Party boss who gave Rudy Giuliani the Liberal line on the ballot in his three runs for Mayor. It looks like Giuliani’s endorsement of Gov. Cuomo’s re-election in 1994 was a pay-off to Harding.