On January 11, the Virginia Republican Party asked permission to present evidence in Perry v Judd, the case over Virginia presidential primary ballot access. The judge promptly granted the party’s request.
When Governor Perry filed the lawsuit, he only complained about the state ban on out-of-state circulators, and at that time the Republican Party of Virginia held itself out as not only neutral, but disinterested in participating in the lawsuit. Then Governor Perry filed an amended complaint, in which he also complained that the Republican Party of Virginia’s procedures for petition-checking were somewhat different in 2012 than they had been in 2008, and that the party should have pre-cleared the new rules with the U.S. Justice Department.
In response, the Virginia Republican Party said that if the new aspect of the complaint were to be considered by the Court, the party wished to present evidence on exactly how it checked petitions in 2012.
Really?
The Texas ballot access laws are a sin. As a Southern Baptist let me use capital letters. A SIN!
So now Mr. Perry is excluded in our Virginia. Virginia’s ballot access laws ain’t great. But they are nuthin’ like the insanity of Texas.
Okay. Let’s do this. Let’s allow the the Green Party to have reasonable, fair, good old American values access to the ballot in every state of our beloved America.
Honorable Governor of the great state of Texas, Rick Perry, show you have learned from this experience. Advocate for putting the Green Party on the ballot in every state in this fine, and good United States of America.
Otherwise, Sir. Stop complainin’ ’bout the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Independent Green Party of Virginia collects 70,000 signatures a year to get on the ballot. And we do not whine, nor file law suits about it.
We just go out and ask our neighbors to put the Independent Green Party of Virginia on the ballot. And they do.