Connecticut Decision by April 2009
December 13th, 2008The judge in the case called Green Party of Connecticut v Garfield said on December 11 that the decision will be out in late March or early April. This is the case over discriminatory aspects of the Connecticut public funding law.
December 13th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Third-party activists and supporters of whatever stripe should scope in to this case, a very
important one. Connecticut’s law seriously discriminates against minor parties and petition
candidates. Key figures in Arizona and Maine, which have good, basically non-discriminatory
public funding programs, are reported to have warned Connecticut officials not to put in the discriminatory provisions, but they did it anyway. Both the state Green and Libertarian parties are lead plaintiffs in this case. By the way, the laws in Arizona and Maine were passed by referendum, but it was the Democratic and Republican lawmakers of Connecticut who passed this law (govt of the duopoly, by the duopoly, and for the duopoly). Former third-party Governor Lowell Weicker filed an
affidavit strongly supportive of the plaintiffs in
this case. So has Richard Winger.