This is strange (from Wikipedia):
On November 15, 2006, John Orman changed his party registration from Democratic to the Connecticut for Lieberman Party. Orman, a professor of politics at Fairfield University, had briefly challenged Lieberman for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination in 2006.
Party rules were filed with the Connecticut Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz on December 21, 2006 by Orman. According to Ted Bromely, a state elections attorney who works for her office, then said, “If someone wanted to challenge it, they’d have to go to court.”
On January 12, 2007 Korchin filed opposing party rules with the secretary of state. On January 17, 2007, Korchin received a letter from a lawyer in the secretary of state’s office, stating that the state had “very limited jurisdiction” over intraparty battles, and was not taking a position over just who was in charge. In March Korchin began changing the Wikipedia entry on the party to reflect his role and minimize Orman’s claims.
At a meeting in Milford in January, 2007, Orman and Korchin appeared, each claiming to be the party chairman. Korchin left and said he would hold his own party meeting in August, after which the Milford meeting elected Orman as chair.
Trotsky would be proud of Orman.
Some of the new rules Orman adopted for the Connecticut for Lieberman party included:
1.If you run under Connecticut for Lieberman, you must actually join our party.
2. The party will nominate people for office who have the last name of Lieberman and/or who are critics and opponents of Senator Lieberman.
3. If any CFL candidate loses our party’s nomination in a primary, that candidate must bolt our party, form a new party and work to defeat our party’s endorsed candidate.
4. We in the CFL intend to run the same candidate for three different jobs at the same time, ie. House, Senate and Governor.