Nader could lose $61,000 in assets (lol)

[LoZoccolo]

WASHINGTON — Ralph Nader, the independent presidential candidate Democrats love to hate, is afraid that Pennsylvania authorities trying to dun him for $61,000 are about to freeze his personal bank account.

Nader ran into a buzz saw when he tried to get on the Pennsylvania ballot in 2004 as an independent presidential candidate. Democratic activists kept him off the ballot, beat him in court for turning in fraudulent signatures his campaign had collected and are on the verge of getting officials in his home city of Washington to seize his assets.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4958221.html

The article also talks about the chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party laughing about it (lol) and Nader trying to say it's political bigotry (nice try, ha ha).

The people after him don't even hide that they're doing it because of his assist to Bush* lol!

[SaveElmer]

1. Oh this is just so sad...

:rofl:

[damntexdem]

2. Ballot access should be possible for third parties.

I will not laugh at kicking Nader about a 'failure' to gain access.

I do wish he would stop playing a spoiler role; but it is his right to do so.

[Old and In the Way]

4. Sure it should.....just not access by fraudulent means.

Sounds downright Republican to me.

[pnwmom]

8. Ballot access is one thing. Fraud is another.

The desire to obtain ballot access doesn't excuse using fraud to get there.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Well, maybe he could do a fundraiser.

I'll bet Grover Norquist could help him out....

[Clark2008]

5. It's funny that some greedy lawyers are trying to dun his personal

assets after THEY brought suit?

That's fucking stupid.

They brought the damn suit, they should foot the fucking bill.

And, no, I didn't and won't vote for Nader, but I can't stand this attempt to blackmail any candidate who wishes to run in a true Democracy, either.

Idiotic. Greedy. Contemputeous and with absolutely NO understanding of what a Democracy is.

[LittleClarkie]

Doesn't the person who loses the case usually have to pay? How does that work?

Sounds like he lost. And I agree with you that he has a right to run, but not by bending the rules over double or outright breaking them. In Florida, one must have a convention to get on the ballot, iirc. I seem to remember that their "convention" amounted to a conference call and a pizza party. And in Pennsylvania it appears that his signatures weren't up to snuff. So there you have it.

[LittleClarkie]

7. dupe

oops. clicked twice

[wyldwolf]

6. maybe his GOP buds will bait him out.