Connecticut Supreme Court Issues Opinion on Independent Party’s Factional Fight

Posted on by January 26, 2024

On January 23, the Connecticut Supreme Court issued its opinion in Alves v Giegler, SC20907, the lawsuit involving the Independent Party’s activity in the 2023 Danbury Mayoral Election.  The Independent Party in Danbury had two factions.  Both held competing nominating conventions and each nominated someone different for Mayor.  The town clerk chose one nominee, but then the lower state court said neither nominee should be on the ballot.  The State Supreme Court agreed with the lower court.  Here is the opinion.

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Connecticut Supreme Court Issues Opinion on Independent Party’s Factional Fight — 16 Comments

  1. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/24/election-2024-no-labels-complaint/72339519007
    Who are No Labels’ donors? Democratic groups file complaints in an attempt to find out

    Brian Slodysko and Jonathan J. Cooper
    Associated Press
    Washington — For months, the centrist group No Labels has stockpiled cash and diligently worked to secure ballot access for a potential third-party presidential bid, striking fear among allies of President Joe Biden that the effort could siphon away votes and hand the White House to Donald Trump.
    Now, with a rematch between Biden and Trump looking likely, two Democratic-aligned groups this week filed campaign finance complaints, hoping to crimp No Labels’ pipeline of campaign cash and force the group to follow the same rules as formal political parties.
    The complaints, filed by the groups End Citizens United and Accountable, are part of a broader Democratic effort to ramp up legal scrutiny and elicit public scorn for No Labels as it teases a possible White House run by an as-of-yet unannounced ticket that many Democrats worry will play electoral spoiler.
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    COMMIE DONKEYS OUT TO PURGE NLP OR WHAT ???

  2. CT–

    MORE REASONS FOR NOOOOO PARTY FACTION STUFF
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    NO CAUCUSES / PRIMARIES / CONVENTIONS FOR NOMINATIONS

    EQUAL NOM PET / FILING FEES

  4. Maybe both nominees should have been on the ballot.

    In some states, if a minor party without a primary circulates competing petitions to put more than one candidate on the ballot for an office, all the candidates of that party who had a qualifying amount of signatures get on the ballot.

  5. “For months, the centrist group No Labels has stockpiled cash and diligently worked to secure ballot access for a potential third-party presidential bid, striking fear among allies of President Joe Biden that the effort could siphon away votes and hand the White House to Donald Trump.”

    Instead of obsessing over No Labels, Democrats ought to expend their energy finding better candidates. Their insistence on re-running Biden seems to indicate that their team has a serious lack of candidate depth.

  7. WZ-

    BOTH D/R STATIST GANGS HAVE EMPTY BRAIN HOLES / VOIDS FOR SENILE CANDIDATES —

    JUST ZOMBIE GRAVEYARD COMMIE / FASCIST STUFF.
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    PR
    APPV
    TOTSOP

  8. To a large extent, the Democratic Party is killing itself. Their candidates are required to pass so many litmus tests in order to get their nomination, that very few pass them all, and very many don’t even try.

  11. This should be a time when a minor party gets out there and obtains ballot access and shines. Instead, factional fighting going on diminishing any unity and progress. The Libertarians are just as bad.

  12. Trump is the true essence of what third parties and independents used to be, but labelled Republican and winning.

  13. Nikki Haley should be kicked out of the GOP. When the GOP Chairwoman thinks it’s over and you are losing primary’s and then she politely nudges you to bow out – you should. Not put your hands on your hips, defy logic, whine and growl, and stay in the primary race. I wish she would come to my town. I’d be giving her the finger while she was speaking. And no, I’m not a adamant Trump fan either. I say what I say because she’s a nasty bitch. Wait until South Carolina and those Southern voters remember her past for removing the Confederate flag from the SC Capital. Payback time.

  14. TWO DEAD-OF-WINTER MINORITY RULE EVENTS IN 2 SMALL POP STATES DETERMINING THE DEFENDER OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

    = DARK AGE / NEW AGE POLITICAL INSANITY.
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    PR
    APPV
    TOTSOP

  15. WHAT ARE INSURANCE ODDS THAT B OR T OR BOTH DIE BEFORE

    PARTY HACK ROBOT CONVENTIONS /
    NOV 2024 ELECTION DAY /
    DEC 2024 12 AMDT ELECTORS VOTE DAY /
    JAN 2025 COUNT VOTES DAY /
    20 JAN 2025 TERM STARTS /
    TERM ENDS 20 JAN 2029 ???

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