Friday, September 27, 2013

New Jersey Socialist Party Voter Registration Case Starts to Move Ahead

27 September 2013

By Richard Winger
Ballot Access News

"On July 1, 2013, the New Jersey Socialist Party filed a lawsuit in state court over voter registration. The state lets people register into certain unqualified parties, but it does not let voters register into the Socialist Party. The state has no objective procedures to decide which parties have voter registration rights. Instead, the state’s policy is to force any particular party to sue. Then, that party gets registration rights.

The Socialist Party case is Noble v State, Mercer County Superior Court, c86-13. The case has a status conference call on November 14. It is hoped that one result of this lawsuit is not only to let people register as members of the Socialist Party, but to nudge the state into setting forth objective standards to determine which parties can have voter registration rights...."

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Thursday, September 5, 2013

College Students Win in the Governor’s Race

05 September 2013

By Tara A. Canavera
Quo Vadis Newspaper (Edison, NJ)

"On November 5, 2013 New Jersey will be voting on a new governor. Incumbent Republican Gov. Chris is running for re-election to a second term. He will be facing Democratic nominee Barbara Buono. He also will be running against several lesser known candidates: William Araujo, Independent Democrat, Jeff Boss, Independent, Ken Kaplan, New Jersey Libertarian Party, Diane Sare, LaRouche Movement Advocate, Hank Schroeder, Don't Look Back/Economic Growth, Steve Welzer, Green Party of New Jersey and write in candidate Maynor Moreno, Socialist Party of New Jersey...."

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Sunday, August 25, 2013

New Jersey's socialist revolutionaries convene

14 August 2013

By Kevin Riordan
Philadelphia Inquirer

"Capitalism is the root of the current crisis this country and many countries are in," says Maynor Moreno, 19, a Rutgers physics major running the Socialist write-in campaign for governor.

'If everyone owned the means of production, everyone would be able to supply themselves and everyone else with everything needed to live a comfortable lifestyle,' the Marlboro, Monmouth County, resident adds.
Moreno's write-in running mate is Stephanie Gussin, 26, of Montclair, Essex County, a photographic retoucher. Their campaign 'is symbolic,' she says, 'but it's also a great opportunity for recruitment, and for spreading information.'...."

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[Note the Moreno-Gussin ticket is running a write-in campaign due to New Jersey's preclusion of ballot listing to gubernatorial candidates who are under the age of 30].

Monday, July 1, 2013

Dan LaBotz, Socialist Party U.S. Senate Candidate in Ohio in 2010, Again Sues Federal Election Commission

1 July 2013

By Richard Winger
Ballot Access News

"On July 1, 2013, Dan LaBotz filed this new lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. This is the second time LaBotz has sued. He won the first case, which is LaBotz v FEC, 889 F.Supp.2d 51 (September 5, 2012). In the first decision, the court ordered to FEC to re-examine his complaint against the Ohio News Organization, which sponsored U.S. Senate general election debates in 2010 and invited only the Democrat and Republican, and had no objective criteria explaining how candidates might qualify for the debates. The Ohio News Organization is a corporation, and corporations can’t contribute to candidates for federal office. So by hosting a debate with no objective criteria, the Ohio News Organization was making a corporate contribution to the two candidates that were invited, Rob Portman and Lee Fisher...."

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Monday, June 24, 2013

New Jersey Socialist Party Sues to Enable Voters to Register as Socialist Party Members

24 June 2013

By Richard Winger
Ballot Access News

"New Jersey is one of the 31 states that asks voters on the voter registration form to choose a party, or independent status. However, New Jersey has a very strange policy to determine which parties voters can join, on voter registration forms. For the last 93 years, the only qualified parties in New Jersey have been the Democratic and Republican Parties. Until 2001, no one could register in New Jersey except as a Democrat, a Republican, or an independent. In 2001 the New Jersey State Appeals Court ruled that voters must be allowed to register into parties that are not qualified, but which regularly place nominees on the ballot. Unqualified parties do that by submitting petitions for their nominees; the ballots contain the names of those unqualified parties, next to the names of their nominees...."

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Sunday, June 16, 2013

New Jersey Democrats Withdraw Challenge to Minor Party Gubernatorial Candidates’ Petitions

16 June 2013

By Krzysztof Lesiak
Independent Political Report 

"In addition to Republican incumbent Chris Christie and Democratic state senator Barbara Buono, there seven minor party candidates running in New Jersey’s gubernatorial election on November 5, 2013, six of them on the ballot and the seventh mounting a write-in campaign.... Maynor Moreno  -  Socialist Party NJ  -  (state college student ineligible to be governor due to age)  -  write-in...."

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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Socialists Find Fault with Obama Administration

19 May 2013

By Dennis "DJ" Mikolay
Independent Voter Network

"Though it wouldn’t be apparent by listening to talk radio alone, the platform of the actual Socialist Party USA, which was founded in the hopes of literally eliminating the capitalism system, has little in common with President Obama’s accomplishments or views. Few know this better than New Jersey activist Patrick Noble, who unsuccessfully ran for Freeholder in Monmouth County on the Socialist Party’s ticket in 2011. He later caused a minor controversy when, at age nineteen, he was elected to the Red Bank Regional High School Board of Education on an anti-capitalist platform. Like many Leftists, Noble, an avowed opponent of war and the two major parties, has often found himself misidentified as a supporter of President Obama...."

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