On December 19, Ralph Nader again asked the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court to reconsider the order that he must pay fees to cover the costs of removing him from the ballot in 2004. Here is the latest brief.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
First of all, Nader and Romanelli being disrespected and attacked like this should be THE CAUSE CELEBRE of the movement of electoral activists.
Many of us go around fighting injustice and the oppressed all the time. Well, a band of major party leaders and patronage job holders did illegal things to thwart an independent candidate, attack his petitions, and slander him. And, now the major party courts are making the oppressed candidates pay. That should make us really mad. We should not stand by and take this.
Someone needs to redo all this as an action alert. Show me who to write, and where to send money. For real.
Secondly…
I wonder if there is a different angle for Nader/Romanelli to go, if the regular court system fails.
If I understand it, many of the people who challenged his petitions are facing criminal charges. Perhaps Nader and Carl Romanelli (another candidate this happened to) need to APPLY AT THE CRIME VICTIMS BUREAU for the money they were forced to pay in court costs. Perhaps they might even use the crime victims bureau as an advocate to right some other aspects of what happened to them, such as money lost for making copies when they were wrongly challenged?