On August 12, Tim Fasano, Independent American Party nominee for U.S. Senate in Nevada, filed a 39-page brief in the Nevada Supreme Court, arguing that one of his opponents, Tea Party nominee Scott Ashjian, should be removed from the ballot. Thanks to Janine Hansen and Glenn Brown for this news. See this story in the Nevada Appeal, the daily newspaper for Carson City.
Told ya!
So the candidate gets 3 percent instead of 2 percent in a 3 way race, if this goes through.
Ashjian is a liar and a fraud that especially made a false statement on his paperwork, and NRS 293.184 is perfectly clear on the punishment.
Ashjian said he was a registered member of the Tea Party, but he actually didn’t change his registration to the Tea Party for three hours after he signed that form.
IAP is behaving shamefully. And imagine all the money they are wastiong on this anti-democratic vanity suit.
Ashjian said he was a registered member of the Tea Party, but he actually didn’t change his registration to the Tea Party for three hours after he signed that form.
= He MADE A FALSE statement, we have the proof of that. You cannot deviate from NRS 293.184, period!
It says it in black and white!
Deran, do you live in Nevada?
Do you know just how much Ashjian is a slimeball that also cant even manage his finances?
He is the worst excuse of a third party candidate there is, and he broke the law too; he has to pay!
And funny how Libertarians here in Nevada support our lawsuit; Debra Dedmon is one of them.
Cody doesn’t acknowledge that keeping Ashjian off the ballot is an attack on the Nevada voters who would like to vote for him. This is especially true because Nevada bans all write-in votes.
Two things:
Harry Reid and Sharron Angle have got to be following this fight with a good bit of interest.
All minor parties are the victims of awful state ballot
access laws. It is a shame that one of them has joined the fight to pull the ladder up. Voters should be able to choose whom they wish.
What good does it do if Mr. Tim Fasano is successful in removing Scott Ashjian from the General Election Ballot? If Mr. Fasano is only going to engage in a “mirror image” of Sharon Angle’s campaign for the US Senate, why even run at all? The IAP should have Mr. Fasano withdraw and allow the IAP to at least “endorse” Mrs. Angle, since I understand “fusion” is not allowed in Nevada or, if it is, its too late.
Nevada has some of the most lenient ballot access laws for third parties and their candidates on the books, and especially if one has to qualify a new party on the ballot- its almost too easy, compared to the efforts the IAP had to do to get on back in 1992.
But here, if a candidate violates NRS 293.184, then the voters pretty much lose the right to vote for him/her; its the law, period.
Sharon Angle’s chances are becoming dimmer and dimmer; she has been constantly making mistakes in her campaign; I, and others, unfortunately think that she may not have a chance anymore, even with no third party or independent candidates on the ballot.
Sharon Angle is a “secular conservative” in my book, so if she loses, I say no big deal. Harry Reid will do more for workers, senior citizens, and the down-trodden than Sharon Angle would ever think about. But it is also sad Mr. Fasano and the IAP’s website seem to share some of Sharon Angle’s views.
Yet unlike Angle, Fasano is quite competent and practical.