[Marxism] NJ Score Card: Nader 1, Dems 0

[Mike Friedman <mikedf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

NJ Score Card:  Nader 1, Dems 0

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CONTACT: BRUCE AFRAN 609-924-2075

OR CARL MAYER 609-462-7979

July 31, 2003




DEMOCRATS FAIL TO MEET DEADLINE TO CHALLENGE NADER

NADER WILL BE ON NEW JERSEY BALLOT

DEMOCRATS REQUEST FOR EXTENSION DENIED

CORPORATE LAW FIRM FAILS AT DIRTY TRICKS




The National and New Jersey Democratic parties -- using a corporate law
firm (Hill, Wallach of Princeton) that is close to the McGreevey
administration today failed in its attempt to meet the New Jersey State
deadline to challenge the signatures collected to put Ralph Nader on the
New Jersey ballot.

The Director of the New Jersey Division of Elections has ruled that no
challenge has been filed.   The Director also told Democratic lawyers that
no extension of time beyond today s 4pm statutory deadline will be granted.
(Democrats had asked for more time.)

This means that Ralph Nader will be on the ballot in New Jersey, despite
claims by New York lawyer Liz Holtzman and others to the press that
Democrats would successfully keep Nader off the ballot in New Jersey.

The Democratic Party has become the Anti-Democratic Party said Attorney
Bruce Afran. The New Jersey Democratic Party, already beset by numerous
criminal convictions, has shown, by attempting to keep Nader off the
ballot, that it has no respect for the election process or for the citizenry.

Democrats have tried more dirty tricks to keep Nader off the ballot in New
Jersey, and have failed said Carl Mayer.  The party and its lawyers do not
respect democracy.

The Nader campaign today also revealed that the New Jersey Democratic Party
has broken its pledge not to challenge signatures submitted by Ralph Nader.

In the July 21, 2004 Easton Express Times, Adam Green, a spokesman for the
Democratic State Committee, said the party has no plans to legally
challenge [Nader s] quest for ballot inclusion&

In the July 23, 2004 Princeton Packet, State Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson
Coleman (D-Ewing), who is chairwoman of the New Jersey Democratic State
Committee, said her party has no intention of blocking Mr. Nader from the
ballot.

Only days after these statements, on July 27, 2004, Hill, Wallach a
corporate law firm with ties to the Democratic Party obtained the Nader
signatures and began a massive statewide effort to deny Nder a place on the
New Jersey ballot.

Democratic rank and file whistleblowers from around the state disgusted by
the Democratic Party's national campaign  to keep Nader off the ballot --
contacted the Nader campaign indicating that Hill, Wallach lawyers and
Democratic Party operatives were desperately trying to invalidate Nader s
signatures.   They failed.

According to an article in the May 12, 2003 Star Ledger, Hill Wallach has
contributed $89,505 to Governor McGreevey since McGreevey became governor.
The firm has earned at least $600,000 from the state and its authorities
under McGreevey.

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