On September 9, the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, declined to put the Libertarian slate of statewide candidates on the ballot. Here is the eight-page order.
On September 9, the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, declined to put the Libertarian slate of statewide candidates on the ballot. Here is the eight-page order.
Ballots being printed ???
TOO late to go to NY CT APPS [NY top court] ???
ONE more TOTAL failure to note 1954 Brown v Bd of Ed ???
Is there time for another appeal?
This is why I am a big advocate of ballot fees to obtain access.
I don’t even care. Does the new ballot access law suck? Yes. But if there aren’t enough voters in New York State to engage with this issue and make it a problem for the elected leaders in office then people deserve what they get.
@Bigdaddyluvsu…. Agreed. I’m also a fan of more sub-classifications of parties; not just major or minor parties but have 3 or 4 difference levels. And also combinations of sigs and fees.
Say:
Major Party (10% or higher in last election): No petitioning/fees except to primary ballot.
Minor Party (5% or higher in last election): Petitioning (or fee at $3 per required signature number) with number of sigs required at less than .5% of the highest level statewide votegetter in last election. Or some combination of signatures and fee. Say 5,000 sigs required. You could get 2,500 and then pay $7500 on top of that to account for the lack of the other 2,500.
Micro Party (1% or higher in last election): Petitioning (or fee at $3 per required signature number) of less than 1% but more than .5% of the highest level statewide votegetter in last election. Or some combination of signatures and fee.
Political Association: Petitioning (or fee at $3 per required signature number) of less than 2% but more than 1% of the highest level statewide votegetter in last election. Or some combination of signatures and fee.
If the LP were a micro party after 2018, Sharpe would have only needed 36,354 sigs or a combination of that and fees. Say he collected 20,000 valid sigs he could have then paid $49,062 to make up for the difference. In other words, sigs to get a discount on the filing fee.
@MCUSAP… Why bother? They’ve lost like 7 suits now.
@ominous future…. Arguably, Sharpe would have probably had more impact (like he insists he wants to do), if he said “okay, we’re not on the ballot this time, lets instead fund raise and run TV ads as to why I’m not on the ballot”; instead of blowing thousands and thousands of dollars trying to get his name listed. He could have made this a campaign talking point for the Repubs and Dems.
Television advertising is expensive. If Larry Sharpe had spent all of the money he raised for this on TB ads, it would not have paid for that much TV time.
@Andy…. Ads run anywhere from $1000 to $3000 per spot per market in prime time. $50k buys at least 15. More than enough to start obtaining additional fundraising. Targeted ads through something like Hulu or slingtv can be 1/2 that. Targeted social ads that link to a video would be 1/5 of the prime time tv ads; but probably would not get as many views.
What about TV ads on prime time television on big TV networks?
@Andy…. Space on cable networks like syfy, USA network, bravo, TLC, etc run about $10k a spot… that’s nationally. Broadcast networks like abc, cbs, fox, nbc are about $1000 – $3000 a spot per market (NYC might be more). So if you want to run something in all of NY state you’re looking at going to each local broadcast affiliate (Albany, Rochester, NYC, etc) and spending in that $1000 – $3000 range at each affiliate per spot.
To run something on broadcast nationally you have to go to every single affiliate for that network and spend $1000 – $3000 at each affiliate….. $3000 x 300 or so affiliates is why national broadcast ads are in the hundreds of thousands. (Some of the networks have a centralized location to book a national ad for broadcast, like during the super bowl; but you have to buy for every single affiliate at the same time).
It also costs money to make the TV commercials themselves.
Yeah but you can put together a quality camera and audio package for less than $5000 now. A black magic design 4k pocket cinema camera ($1300), with a zoom lens ($600), a lav mic ($100), an audio recorder ($200), a camera rig ($400), and small lighting package ($1200 or so). A decent college-age cinematographer is less than $300 a day. Hell most mid-range Hollywood cinematographers charge between $3000 and $5000 a week.