On February 8, the Peace & Freedom Party called on California Secretary of State Debra Bowen to restore all four names to the party’s presidential primary ballot. Here is the statement. Thanks to Bob Richards for the link.
The two PFP candidates omitted by the Secretary of State seem to have just as visible a campaign as some of the presidential candidates on the Libertarian Party’s presidential primary list. The Secretary of State did not delete any names from the Libertarian Party’s much longer list of nine presidential primary candidates.
The Secretary of State is trying to keep secret her criteria for choosing which candidates go on the ballot. She was elected, some will remember, as the person who would bring competence and transparency to the office. Oops.
It appears that someone in her office, with her approval, developed a list of criteria (spottily applied in practice) that mixed up the requirement of various parties (all different in the Elections Code) and misapplied the criteria of some parties to others. Every now and then, wouldn’t if be great if these officials had to read the laws that govern their actions? It wouldn’t have taken much reading to realize that coverage in the news media, for example, is not required for listing a Peace and Freedom Party candidate. That is only required in the American Independent Party.
Check out the details in the statement from Peace and Freedom Party State Chair C.T. Weber.
Some have suggested that the two omitted candidates were left out because they had not filed with the FEC (also not a requirement for PFP candidates). But both have filed in the last couple of days.
There is an on-line petition you can sign (posted by Unite Left! of New York State, you can find them on any search engine). Go sign it, and you can help bring to Bowen’s attention the fact that the world is watching. According to the Elections Code, she can continue adding names. Help give her some incentive!
I can confirm what C. T. Weber stated is true and correct. I was with Mr. Weber when we had the conversation with Joanna Southard of the Elections
Division. Secretary of State Bowen, removed 11 person
from the Amrican Independent Party list filed on
January 13, 2012. Two on the AIP list were Alaskan Natives, viz., Eskimos by the names of Walter Nayakik
and Todd Palin. It was not till January, 1941 that
Congress by a collective naturalization act gave a
second class form of United States Citizenship to Eskimos born in the United Stastes. Under law persons
with 1/16th Eskimo Blood are Eskimo (this is the last of
the “one drop rule” in current American Law). Eskimos
are not covered under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Walter Nayakik is a decendent of John Quincy Adams. His mother Della Nayakik nee Adams was
declared by United States Secretary of State Charles
Evans Hughes on May 13, 1924 as a “ward of the United
States Government”. Todd Palin is a Yupik Eskimo that
is the husband of Sarah Palin (who is the former Governor of Alaska). Yes, Sarah Palin’s children are also Yupik Eskimos.
So Debra Bowen, now whats to keep Eskimos off the ballot
in California. Alaska needs to put Bowen in her place.
Even though Congress gave Eskimos a second class citizenship. They still meet the requirements to run
for POTUS.
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Chairman, American Independent Party
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