Nader Might Go to Court to Make Mass. Ballot

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Nader Might Go to Court to Make Mass. Ballot

BOSTON (Reuters) - Independent presidential hopeful Ralph Nader is considering legal action after he failed to make it on the Massachusetts ballot for November's elections, a campaign aide said on Wednesday.
In order to qualify for the state's Nov. 2 ballot, Nader needed 10,000 certified signatures, but had only 8,132 by the deadline last night, according to William Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts.

The candidate's legal team, which the aide said was frustrated and disappointed, is poised to decide next week whether to go to federal court in Boston to get Nader's name on the ballot all the same.

"It's not far-fetched to think we could win by way of litigation," Michael Richardson, Nader's ballot access coordinator, told Reuters, adding the candidate's efforts had been foiled by "an antiquated system that serves no legitimate state interest."

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6126149

[meegbear]

1. Antiquated system?

You need 10,000 signatures to get on the ballot. He didn't get enough, so it's antiquated and there's something wrong with it?

Nader - unsafe at any speed.

[apnu]

2. FUCK YOU RALPH NADER!!!!!

You didn't get the signatures then you aren't on the ballot. By all the GODS, if I could go to court and get on a state's ballot, I'd fucking be govenor already.

What an asshole!

:mad: :nuke:

[Rambis]

13. I never thought I would say this but DITTO!

don't vote for Nader he is an asshole"
Bobby Weir formerly of the Grateful Dead

[swag]

3. Ralph Nader: American Fraud

[quaoar]

4. Has Nader said recently

What the point of all this is? What is the point of him running?

[Kahuna]

7. Same old refrain with him. He wants to participate in the debates...

So he can attack the democratic candidate and toss the election to the republican.

[LisaL]

9. I think

the point of him running-he is the center of attention, everybody is talking about him.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Just exactly what is this ass trying to prove?

He is simply wasting time and money. If he were serious, he would exposing problems with education, environment, medical care etc.
instead he forces this stupid put me-on-the-ballot thing. He has become crazy as a loon.

[trogdor]

6. Big whoop!

If Nader has a snowball's chance in Hell of turning Massachusetts red this November, we're in WAY deeper trouble than even the most nervous Chicken Littles at DU would suggest. Energies and monies expended fighting Ralph Nader in MA would be better spent fighting Bush and his Band Of Liars.

[amber dog democrat]

10. Where does this nitwit get his funding from anyway?

Its such a wrong headed thing for him to be doing in the first place.
Nader - the Leon Trotsky of Americanitsia Politica.
A legend in his own mind.

[noahmijo]

15. From the GOP where else?

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0709-04.htm


But the financial records show that $23,000 in checks of $1,000 or more have come from loyal Republicans. Among those who have given recently to Nader are Houston businessman Nijad Fares, who donated $200,000 to President Bush's 2000 inaugural committee; Richard J. Egan, the former ambassador to Ireland, and his wife, Pamela, who have raised more than $300,000 for Bush; Michigan developer Ghassan Saab, who has given $30,000 to the RNC since 2001; and frozen food magnate Jeno Paulucci, and his wife, Lois, who have donated $150, 000 to GOP causes since 2000 alone.

All have donated the maximum $2,000 to Nader's campaign since April, records show.

Asked about the money from GOP backers, Nader campaign spokesman Kevin Zeese countered that many of Kerry's donors also had given to Republicans, including Bush in the past.

[AP]

8. If he's going to be on any ballot, this (and NY) are the ones to be on.

[Liberal Veteran]

11. What a sordid end to an otherwise good career.

I'd almost feel sorry for him if he weren't so clueless and whorish.

[Old and In the Way]

12. Just like a Republican.

Can't play and win by the rules, so change the rules.

[EST]

14. Blind, stupid dedication to a discredited cause,

though deplorable, is uniquely human and perhaps insane, as so many sig lines point out.