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May 10, 2004

Nader Sues Texas

By Byron LaMasters

I'm happy to report that Nader has failed to receive the necessary signatures to get on the ballot here in Texas. His petition folks are pretty desperate. He's paying people $1 / signature and I've happily told all of the folks on campus that I proudly support John Kerry for President when they harass me to sign Nader's ballot petition (I'm ineligable to sign the petition anyway as I voted in the Democratic Primary). Anyway, Nader's suing the state of Texas because we don't want him on our ballot. The Dallas Morning News reports:

Lacking the signatures needed to secure a place on the Texas presidential ballot, consumer advocate Ralph Nader on Monday asked a federal court to declare the state's ballot access laws for independent candidates unconstitutional.

"Democracy is under assault in Texas," Mr. Nader said. "Through unconstitutional laws and denial of access to public places, Texas voters are being denied more voices and more choices."

Secretary of State Geoffrey Connor said his office would vigorously defend the law against Mr. Nader's lawsuit.

"While Mr. Nader's campaign suggests that the state's deadline and required number of signatures is unconstitutional, there have been a number of successful efforts to gain ballot access in Texas as an independent presidential candidate, including Ross Perot in 1992 and 1996 and Pat Buchanan in 2000," he said.

As late as midday Monday, Nader volunteers were in Austin coffee shops, making a last-minute effort to gather signatures.

Both camps jousted over ballot access for much of the day, when it became clear that Mr. Nader would fall far short of the requirement to have 64,076 signatures by 5 p.m. The total represents 1 percent of all votes cast for president in the 2000 election. Voters who had participated in the March 9 primary were not eligible to sign the petitions.

Mr. Nader says that the different standards for independent candidates and third-party candidates, who must turn in 45,540 signatures by May 24 to get on the Texas ballot, are unfair.

His campaign said it would not turn in its 50,000 voter signatures and would instead continue to circulate petitions.

Kevin Zeese, a spokesman for Mr. Nader, said they would have enough signatures by May 24.

"We're on the same pace we were on in 2000," when Mr. Nader was a Green Party candidate, Mr. Zeese said.

Getting on the Texas ballot was the first major test for the Nader campaign.

[...]

Mr. Connor said the state's ballot access standard had already been tested in court.

"Repeat litigation is regrettable, but we will certainly defend state election law," he said.


So here's strike one to the Nader campaign. Yay for Texas!

Posted by Byron LaMasters at May 10, 2004 11:01 PM | TrackBack


Comments

Too bad Texas can't sue Nader. lol

Posted by: Tim Z at May 11, 2004 06:30 AM

If he wants to be President so badly, he needs to follow the law. Normally, I encourage protest to effect change, but this is a different case. What a spazoid.

Posted by: Andrea M. at May 11, 2004 06:37 AM

Nader served consumers well in this country for a long time. For too long now Ralph Nader has served his ego and not his country. I am the Chairman of the Texas Democratic Party and I will do whatever is legally necessary to keep Nader off of the Texas ballot so that his ego cannot change an election like 2000. Because of Nader, George Bush won and we have seen the results, millions out of work, war, corporate scandals of a magnitude never seen before.

Posted by: chairman at May 11, 2004 07:33 AM

Whine, Nader, whine!

Posted by: blue at May 11, 2004 09:07 AM

Let's hope some swing states follow suit (no pun intended). :)

Posted by: Andrea M. at May 12, 2004 05:50 AM
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