Posted on 09/20/2004 8:19:41 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
Judge Wendy York has recused herself and rescinded her order to keep Nader off the NM ballot, just reported on KKOB AM radio by Larry Aherns.
A day after the order was published, she was found to have donated to Kerry's campaign.
State democrats are "saddened".
OH PLEASE GOD, let it be a blogger who uncovered it!!!!!
RATS and Muhammadans are the anti-Americans...
I was afraid of that.
Additional info from Aherns: Of 22 district court judges, 2 of them donated to candidates. The other judge, who donated to President Bush, wisely recused herself from hearing this case.
Also, ballots are being printed right now, evidently without Nader, the excuse being that ballots are required to be printed a certain number of days before the election.
As I have posted before, I think the chances of President Bush picking up NM are very slim...how can you combat this kind of corruption?
They are "troubled", don't 'cha know.
Most justices in most courts tend to be opportunist Communists...
Salvo #1 in the Voter Fraud Wars has been repelled.
fix is in
>>>
America has never seen the 'fix' like we could see if this is close...RATS and Muhammadans are the anti-Americans. There is no morality or honor among them...
Yes, perhaps the donation to Kerry's campaign was improper, but the judicial integrity of her decision is intact, to this day.
I saw Bill Richardson crowing about the Democrat's victory over democracy in NM, keeping Nader off the ballot. Hope he has to eat those words.
Nader would scare 4% out of the AARP feebs in NM, enough to send Kerry down.
BTW, great post and thanks...
If Richardson had said Hispanic-Americans one more time it would have been a Guinness Book of world record, and I would have barffed!
Greens vs. Dems: It's a nasty battle, as one honorable man found out
V.B. Price, Albuquerque Tribune
Political karma, the old rule of "what goes around, comes around," has taken an unhappy new form in New Mexico, one that mirrors the nastiness of national politics in unexpected ways.
When University of New Mexico senior and campus Green Party Chairman Trey Smith tried to get on the ballot as a Green to run against Democrat state Rep. Gail Beam, one of the most progressive legislators in the state, he came up against the Bernalillo County clerk, Democrat Mary Herrera, who ruled he was ineligible.
Smith found himself in the middle of a karmic battle between Greens and Democrats in New Mexico, one that has been brewing for years. Two other Green candidates around the state have been kept off the ballot, too.
Smith told me he was ousted from the ballot on a "technicality" stemming from his vote in the Democratic caucus. The clerk maintained he didn't reregister as a Green soon enough to get on the ballot. Smith said he reregistered in plenty of time. So he took the matter to District Court.
I know Smith. He's a student in a seminar on the Constitution that I teach in the UNM honors program. He's a straight arrow - upstanding, honest, courageous in taking often difficult positions and, above all, honorable. He would never fudge or manipulate "technicalities" to get himself on the ballot.
But the Democrats went to great lengths to keep him off the ballot as a Green candidate. And Beam didn't have Republican opposition, and so there's no chance of Smith's being a "spoiler."
District Judge Wendy York ruled against Smith last week. Smith told me he went into the proceedings without a lawyer and found himself facing a phalanx of high-powered attorneys working to oppose his claim.
How very curious. How very sad. A healthy debate between Beam and Smith would have given voters something to think about. Now there's just silence - and animosity.
This is what gives politics a bad name. Ultraconservative German political philosopher Carl Schmitt, so attractive to certain Republicans, said politics is a matter of friends and enemies, with no middle ground. This lunatic view of political reality, hatched in Hitler's Germany, seems to be infecting the American political spectrum.
Everybody has a grudge. Greens increasing think, with some reason, Democrats are ganging up on them. Democrats are furious at Greens for attacking them while giving Bush a free ride in 2000 and for lumping them together with Republicans, which is intolerable after Republicans have savagely attacked Democrats for a quarter century, even to the point of calling liberals "traitors." Sometimes Greens seem to Democrats like Republican agent provocateurs.
So, there's Smith, caught in the miasma of karmic grudges. Will he keep the old brutal merry-go-round spinning? I hope not. He's a good man with high ideals - just the kind of person who should be in public office.
Price is an Albuquerque free-lance writer, author, editor and commentator.
Posted: Tue - April 20, 2004 at 03:13 PM Greens for Greens Viewpoints Previous Next Feedback
LOL!
What is it about liberals that causes them to only do the right thing after they are caught, and then after doing what they should have done before they were caught, expecting to be given credit for the after-the-fact correction?
Bush will take New Mexico this time. He only lost by a few hundred votes last time and that was because the area around Ruidoso (rich Republicans) were snowbound and had difficulty getting to the polls. If I remember correctly, there were also some "ballot boxes got lost on the way to counting" events.
Yes, That reminds me... You owe me money.
Great post.
I remember that - "Here's another box of votes that were gathering dust behind the stage in the high school auditorium!" It is to laugh - and cry - at the same time.
I wasn't living here at the time, so wasn't aware of the snowbound Republicans.
A Nader spokesman has called in to the Aherns show and stated that Nader will indeed be on the ballot, so that is good news.
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