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Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 10:25 PM Jun 2012

Keep an eye on this: Lawsuit to attempt to take Fl Dem supremes off the ballot.


Lawsuit filed over Florida Supremes’ qualifying paperwork shuffle

TALLAHASSEE — A conservative legal group filed a lawsuit Monday contending that three Florida Supreme Court justices should be removed from the November ballot because they did not qualify properly.

The Southeastern Legal Foundation filed the lawsuit in Leon County circuit court on behalf of Lee County resident Bernard Long and Seminole County resident Veronico “Ron” Flores. The defendants are Secretary of State Ken Detzner and justices R. Fred Lewis, Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince, who are up for merit-retention votes this fall.

The lawsuit, in part, focuses on a well-publicized snafu that led to the justices taking a break from hearing arguments April 20 to meet a deadline for filing documents needed to qualify for the ballot. The Southeastern Legal Foundation alleges that justices broke state law by using court employees to notarize the documents.

The lawsuit says that “but for the justices’ use of state employees’ services during working hours in furtherance of their campaigns … defendant Detzler would not have qualified them for placement on the merit-retention ballot.”

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2012/06/lawsuit-filed-over-florida-supremes-qualifying-paperwork-shuffle.html
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Keep an eye on this: Lawsuit to attempt to take Fl Dem supremes off the ballot. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Jun 2012 OP
note to incompetent demcrats - you see, THIS is how it is done fellows and ladies nt msongs Jun 2012 #1
More shenanigans from asshole conservatives. sakabatou Jun 2012 #2
And Rmoney buying $5.00 Politicalboi Jun 2012 #3
 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
3. And Rmoney buying $5.00
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 10:31 PM
Jun 2012

Sandwich's on the campaign trail is not taken seriously. If they want to play the game, let's play. In late July Obama's team should have Rmoney disqualified.

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