sixdollarchampagne
28th October 2012, 20:55
From socialistaction.org:
In late July 2012 San Francisco Superior Court Judge Curtis E.A. Karnow imposed $243,279.50 in punitive attorney fees against Socialist Action National Secretary Jeff Mackler and five other plaintiffs, who, two years earlier, had filed a law suit against the state of California challenging important provisions of Proposition 14, the new and infamous Top Two election law.
Top Two, the product of a bipartisan vote in the California State Legislature, was in significant part aimed at banning minority parties and candidates from fully participating in the electoral process. The law bans write-in campaigns outright and forces candidates who are not ballot qualified and who run in a now mandated open primary to identify themselves as no party preference despite the fact that they are members of political parties....
Read the whole story at:
http://socialistaction.org/2012/10/243000-in-fees-levied-against-sa-national-secretary/
In late July 2012 San Francisco Superior Court Judge Curtis E.A. Karnow imposed $243,279.50 in punitive attorney fees against Socialist Action National Secretary Jeff Mackler and five other plaintiffs, who, two years earlier, had filed a law suit against the state of California challenging important provisions of Proposition 14, the new and infamous Top Two election law.
Top Two, the product of a bipartisan vote in the California State Legislature, was in significant part aimed at banning minority parties and candidates from fully participating in the electoral process. The law bans write-in campaigns outright and forces candidates who are not ballot qualified and who run in a now mandated open primary to identify themselves as no party preference despite the fact that they are members of political parties....
Read the whole story at:
http://socialistaction.org/2012/10/243000-in-fees-levied-against-sa-national-secretary/