On May 16, Americans Elect submitted its ballot access petition in Alaska. The petition, if approved, will mean that Americans Elect is a limited political party in Alaska for 2012. A limited political party is one that is only on the ballot for President and Vice-President, but not other office.
Is the Constitution Party submitted theirs yet?
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The Constitution Party is not doing a petition in Alaska. It is trying to become a ballot-qualified party for all office. That can be done with a registration drive, not a petition. Alaska doesn’t have a petition to transform a group into a qualified party.
If the Constitution Party feels it won’t get enough registrations, though, it is certainly free to do the petition for limited status. That petition isn’t nearly as difficult as the registration requirement.
I heard that Americans Elect finished this petition drive months ago, as in sometime back in 2010. Why are they just now turning in the petition signatures?
“limited political party”?!
What kind of beast is that?
It appears that Mike Arno has serious problems not related to this petition drive.
His pattern of conduct since the death of his brother is troublesome for any one who circulates petitions.
The wife left him over eastern european whore hopping and his significant other stateside.
On the last two petitions Arno has ‘managed’, he has cheated his workers and lied to his clients.
His charge backs on electricity were based on a flawed formula (in his favor by 5%-13% depending on county). The more blackstriping a manager did to try to clean it up, the worse they got screwed. Not content with his managers doing his validity skimming for him, he ‘rewarded’ them by hitting them with across the board chargebacks after it was too late.
On the tobacco tax, he refused to file the petition until he was payed “enough to cover the people who stood in front of the stores”. He then scurried away keeping the money for himself and again leaving people unpaid.
In this latest fiasco with Americans Elect, he has already had to refund nearly $30,000.00(opensecrets.org) to Peter Ackerman. While this is not conclusive proof that yet another client caught Arno with his hand in the till,I have never seen a client demand a refund because they had trust in the integrity and/or bookkeeping methods of the consultant.
His other business ventures haven’t done so well either. His partner Rich Nicholas was arrested at a local mall in a tragic case of mistaken identity. It seems the approchable teenager with family problems he met while trolling chat rooms turned out to be an undercover officer. No one ever figured out the relationship between Rich and Mike, but they did share a fascination with video gadgets and teen trends. It also raises the question as to whether Mike’s tireless fundraisnig efforts to bring a swim center to Rio Americano High School was an act of charity or a cynical ploy to gain access to scantilly clad juveniles.
APC used to be the most ethical company in this industry. Unfortunately that ceased with the death of Bill Arno and the return of Linda Petrillo to his bookkeeping department.
Petrillo is there only because she is a semi-skilled liar. Anyone who has had to deal with her sloppy, lazy, mistake prone work ethic knows what I am talking about. Whenever her incompetence is on display she lashes out like a wounded kimodo dragon in a tone reminiscent of a mastodon stuck in a tar pit. She became even worse several years ago when the bank took away her house because she was treating it like an ATM machine. Just recently she was caught lying to unemployment.
People in this industry know how to find me and if/when he rips everyone off, I’m still in the data business, and available to testify if necessary.
For the record I stopped doing his programming because I will not work with people who lie and who’s business practices I can’t defend.
All of the above is a matter of public record or personal opinion. Mike Arno has already been informed by a judge in a court of law as to his lack of legal remedy for anything I have written.
Just my $0.02