Message #80 (81 is last): Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 04:42:43 -0000 From: pgammill@home.com Subject: [lpaz-discuss] Re: Advisory: Arizona Lawsuit Win To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
First, congradulations (for whatever its worth (about $2 million apparently)). Mr. Browne should never have been denied a spot on the AZ ballot as an Independent. But I had to comment on some deliberate misleading reporting.
> ADVISORY FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY
> The Libertarian Party and Harry Browne had filed a lawsuit against
> Arizona's filing deadline in August 2000, after Browne was denied a
> spot on the ballot by a splinter group of the Arizona Libertarian
> Party.
Since Mational's affiliate the ALP, Inc. (aka AZ State Committee) split off of the Arizona Libertarian Party six years ago, National's affiliate is the "splinter" group. Secondly, Mr. Browne was never denied a spot on the ballot by the ALP... he refused to take part in the consideration of that spot despite numerous attempts and expenditures by the ALP to get him to take part. Apparently, it is easier to have Mr. Willis sucker up 2 mill, than show up to a debate. [And gosh, how did that "splinter" group get control of the ballot nomination in the first place?]
>
> Browne, the party's official presidential candidate, had been
nominated > at the Libertarian National Convention in July, ....
A convention at which the AZ delegates seated were from the group that lacked ballot status. And at which the officer's running the convention repeatedly lied to the ALP in order to prevent any consideration of the ALP/ALP, Inc. fiasco from being discussed by the convention membership on the floor.
>
> But the maverick Arizona group placed Colorado science fiction
author > L. Neil Smith on the ballot as the LP candidate for president....
Maverick? Thank you! The decision in the end wasn't hard...Smith agreed to take the nomination. Browne, for whatever reason, wasn't interested in even being considered, preferring instead to later spend $65,000 to get onto the ballot as an Independent. That was his choice. And the AZ courts should have respected that. I am sorry they didn't until it was moot.
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