Clubs Rule

jbjd ^ | 02.19.10 | jbjd

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So, what is the legal construct of the Texas Democratic Party? Let me give you a hint what it’s not. Here are the documents returned by the TX Secretary of State web site after a paid on-line search of documents held by that office, for an entity called Texas Democratic Party. Did you notice what name is missing? Yep; the Texas Democratic Party. In the words of Randall Dillard, Director of Communications, Office of the TX SoS: “There is no requirement in state law that political parties organize as a business entity and since the parties are not found in a search of our records, they are not organized as corporations, limited partnerships or limited liability companies.” Whoa! If the TDP is none of these then, what is it? Well, I tried a Googe search for “clubs in Texas.” And look at what showed up at the bottom of page 6: Texas Democratic Party. In sum, here is the answer to the question, what is the TDP. It is the club mystically possessed with the power to get TX election officials to print the name of Barack Obama next to the D on the state’s 2008 general election ballot based only on the word of its Chair that he is Constitutionally eligible for POTUS, notwithstanding no one in the club is willing to disclose, why.