On September 14, the state Reform Parties of Texas, Michigan and Florida filed a lawsuit against the national Reform Party, arguing that their expulsion from the national Reform Party in Yuma in November 2005 violated due process. The attorney for the three state parties is Matt Sawyer, who was the Reform Party’s chief ballot access attorney during the 1990’s. The case is Texas Reform Party v Reform Party of the USA, Dallas County District Court 07-9217.
Hmmmm, does this round of Plaintiffs include anyone from 2004 whom voted to suspend Ohio [Virginia Brooks] and or Iowa [Ted Webster] as an over reaction to the misdeeds of INDIVIDUAL OFFICERS on the state level?
As we could hear on the teleconference[s], the state chairs were not doing national level projects [National Face to Face Convention, National Print News Letter] to a reasonable degree. However it was clearly immoral [and probably illegal] to punish the entire state when a censorship or a bannishment from national office ON THE INDIVIDUAL basis would have sufficed.
What happens when you and your associates do bring the news letter in on time, with out WWIII, and looking reasonably good? When they discover that you are a real boy and just a wooden puppet, you get fired!
News alert, the new symbol for all four branches of the reform movement: the Circular Firing Squad!
I admire the stamina of old Reform Party internal warriors making the party smaller than the atom!
This is silly. These people who have filed this case, just lost in Federal Court and in that case this issue was decided. Federal court is senior to this State court. These people are sore loosers, State court cannot hear a case and subject matter decided by a superior court. Plus How can the other 2 States sue in Texas?
When the Circular Firing Squads (so aptly named by Don Lake) run out of ammuntion, they will simply start using their bayonets. This is going on in the Socialst Party USA also. I am happy to say that I no longer belong to either the Reform Party or SPUSA.
It is very sad, but true, that political parties old and new sometimes have these sorts of problems. The best bet for reformers and social justice advocates these days is the Green Party of the United States. Go Greens (the party that will replace the Republicans as the second major party in this country – by 2012)!