AGAIN, HELPING THE THIRD PARTIES
This time in a successful
lawsuit to strike down
Part ZZZ of Budget Bill #S.7508-B/A.9508-B
as unconstitutional
click here for:
CJA's prior help to
New York's Third Parties
1.
CJA's April 20, 2020 e-mail to Serve America Movement
Party, Working Families Party, Conservative Party, Green Party,
Libertarian Party, Independence Party --
"GOOD
NEWS FOR NY's THIRD PARTIES: You can EASILY challenge -- &
win -- a lawsuit throwing out Part ZZZ of Budget Bill
#S.7508-B/A.9508-B as UNCONSTITUTIONAL"
attached:
March 18, 2020 letter to Gov. Cuomo
attached:
16th &
9th causes of action from CJA's citizen-taxpayer actions
link to:
CJA's citizen-taxpayer
actions
2020 LEGISLATIVE SESSION
click here for:
PART ZZZ (at pp. 241-260):
...§10.
Subdivision 3 of section 1-104 of the election law is
amended to
read as follows:
3. The term "party" means any political organization
which [delete:
at the
last preceding election for governor polled at
least fifty thousand
votes for its candidate for governor],
excluding blank and void ballots,
at the last preceding election for governor received, at
least two
percent of the total votes cast for its candidate for
governor, or one
hundred thirty thousand votes, whichever is greater, in the
year in
which a governor is elected and at least two percent of the
total votes
cast for its candidate for president, or one hundred thirty
thousand
votes, whichever is greater, in a year when a president is
elected.
§11. Severability. The component clauses, sentences,
subdivisions,
paragraphs, sections, and parts of this law shall be
interpreted as being
non-severable from the other components herein. If any
clause,
sentence, subdivision, paragraph, section or part of this
act be
adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be
invalid, such
judgment shall invalidate the remainder thereof, and shall
not be
confined in its operation to the clause, sentence,
subdivision, paragraph,
section or part thereof directly involved in the controversy
in
which such judgment shall have been rendered."
click here for:
March 12, 2020 decision in the two coordinated lawsuits of
the Conservative Party
& Working Families Party vs
Public Campaign Financing & Election Commission
click here for:
those two state lawsuits
-- & SAM's federal lawsuit
2.
SAM-NY PARTY
(Serve America Movement)
CJA's April 21, 2020 e-mail
--
"Follow-up: GOOD NEWS
FOR NY's THIRD PARTIES..."
CJA's April 28, 2020 e-mail --
"SAM-NY's
federal lawsuit (SDNY #1:20-cv-00323-JGK), formerly, but no
longer, naming, as defendants, Gov. Cuomo & the
up-for-re-election Senate & Assembly majority/minority
leaders"
SAM federal lawsuit
cc:
CJA's April 30, 2020 e-mail
to
Former Presidential Candidates
Andrew Yang & Bernie Sanders--
"GOOD
NEWS: You can EASILY reinstate NYS'
Democratic presidential primary --
&, simultaneously, return
NYS' corrupted budget 'process' to the constitutional
rails
from which it has been driven by the Democratic &
Republican Parties
3.
WORKING FAMILES-NY PARTY
CJA's April 22, 2020 e-mail
--
"GOOD NEWS FOR NY's THIRD
PARTIES..."
cc:
CJA's April 30, 2020 e-mail
to
Former Presidential Candidates
Andrew Yang & Bernie Sanders--
"GOOD
NEWS: You can EASILY reinstate NYS'
Democratic presidential primary --
&, simultaneously, return
NYS' corrupted budget 'process' to the constitutional
rails
from which it has been driven by the Democratic &
Republican Parties
4.
GREEN PARTY-NY
CJA's April 23, 2020 e-mail
--
"GOOD NEWS FOR NY's THIRD
PARTIES..."
cc:
CJA's April 30, 2020 e-mail
to
Former Presidential Candidates
Andrew Yang & Bernie Sanders--
"GOOD
NEWS: You can EASILY reinstate NYS'
Democratic presidential primary --
&, simultaneously, return
NYS' corrupted budget 'process' to the constitutional
rails
from which it has been driven by the Democratic &
Republican Parties
5.
LIBERTARIAN PARTY-NY
(facebook)
CJA's April 23, 2020 e-mail
--
"Follow-Up: GOOD NEWS FOR NY's
THIRD PARTIES..."
CJA's Aprl 24, 2020 correcting e-mail
link to:
CJA's January 9, 2020 ltr to Court of Appeals
CJA's April 25, 2020 e-mail
-- [lpedia]
"Status?..."
CJA's April 26, 2020 e-mail
--
"The future of the NYS Libertarian Party as a
ballot-recognized, NYS third party --
& the success of
candidates worthy of its endorsement & ballot line
in the
2020 elections"
CJA's April 27, 2020
e-mail
--
Advancing Libertarian Party Leadership --
The
Important Role of Third Party County Chairs, Etc."
cc:
CJA's April 30, 2020 e-mail
to
Former Presidential Candidates
Andrew Yang & Bernie Sanders--
"GOOD
NEWS: You can EASILY reinstate NYS'
Democratic presidential primary --
&, simultaneously, return
NYS' corrupted budget 'process' to the constitutional
rails
from which it has been driven by the Democratic &
Republican Parties
* * *
THIRD PARTY PRESS
STATEMENTS
SERVE AMERICA MOVEMENT (SAM) PARTY
March 25, 2020
"NY
Court Strikes Down Cuomo's Ballot Access Law
As An Unconstitutional Delegation of Authority"
GREEN PARTY
March 13, 2020
"Killing
off New York's Third Parties -- Not Today!"
-- referred to December 9, 2020 press conference:
VIDEO
December 10, 2019:
"Green
Party & Libertarian Party Blast Democrats' anti-democratic
Ballot Access Changes"
December 3, 2019:
"Green
Party Says It Will Pursue Litigation
Against Public
Campaign Finance Commission Ballot Access Thresholds"
LIBERTARIAN PARTY
March 13, 2020
"LPNY
BALLOT ACCESS WIN: Judge Strikes Down Law Creating NYS
'Public Finance' Commission"
webpage:
www.lpny.org/fairvote -- "Protect Our Ballot Access"
"Protect Your Voting Choices
NY Democrats and Republicans are trying to fund their
campaigns with $100 million/year of your tax money
and
eliminate all other parties. Regardless of your
corrent party, if you think choice is important on election
day,
help us fight this terrible new election law."
* * *
THIRD PARTY OFFICERS &
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Conservative Party &
here
Green
Party
Libertarian Party
* * *
PRESS
REPORTING/EDITORIALIZING
March 27, 2020
"Cuomo
floats public financing in N.Y. state budget
despite judge scuttling controversial commission"
Daily News (Denis Slattery)
April 1, 2020
"Previously
Struck Down in Court, New State Campaign Finance
System
and Political Party Thresholds Pass
in Budget"
Gotham Gazette (Samar
Khurshid)
April 3, 2020
"NYS
Minor Parties Say They Will
Be Weakened By Provision in New State Budget"
WAER (Karen DeWitt)
April 3, 2020
"Cuomo
tucks controverial campaign finance overhaul
into sprawling state budget"
New
York Post (Bernadette Hogan, Nolan Hicks)
April 9, 2020
WAMC Radio -- Capitol Connection -- Alan
Chartock
Working Families Party State Director Sochie
Nnaemeka
April 12, 2020
"New
York's Smaller Political Parties
Must Quickly Meet New Ballot Thresholds"
Gotham Gazette (Samar Khurshid)
“The governor is starting to play a game of
chicken or a game of Russian roulette, I should
say, with the third parties,”
[Conservative
Party Chairman] Kassar said. Cornered animals,
he said, “have no choice but to fight back
in as vicious a manner as they can and I think
that's what he's created with many of these
third parties.”
April 13, 2020
"Changes
in state budet impact minor political parties"
Jamestown Post-Journal (Dennis Phillips)
April 14, 2020
"State
Public Finance Is a Big Deal. Let's Treat
It As Such"
Kings County Politics
(Martin Samoylov)
---
September 16, 2020
"Why
a Progressive N.Y. Party is Fighting for Its
Survival"
New York Times (Dana
Rubinstein)
July 28, 2022
"For
the First Time Since 1946,
New Yorkers Have Just 2 Choices for Governor"
NYT (Jay Root)
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February 23, 2019
"Former
Kings County Chairman, Gerard Kassar, Accepts the Reigns
From Michael R. Long"
"a forty-year Legislative career
in which he held several senior staff positions in the State
Assembly Minority. In 2003, Jerry joined the central staff
of the NYS Senate Majority eventually being appointed State
Senator Martin Golden’s Chief of Staff in 2004, a position
he held until his retirement in December of 2018."
February 25, 2019
"Jerry
Kassar Elected As New State Conservative Party Chair"
Kings County Politics (Stephen Witt)
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