Judge Tosses Out Ballot Access Lawsuit; Bloggers Off the Hook
by Christine Stuart | October 5, 2007 7:07 PM
Posted to Courts
According to the Connecticut Post, a federal judge has refused to order the state to conduct a new election in Derby, where Mel Thompson, an independent candidate for mayor, was left off the ballot.
Thompson who brought the lawsuit alleged negligence and fraud against town officials and defamation against a handful of bloggers and commenters. According to the Connecticut Post, the judge, “quickly whittled down the rambling 35-page lawsuit by throwing out the negligence, fraud and defamation charges, saying that all the defendants are state residents there is no federal jurisdiction.”
Click here to read the Connecticut Post’s article or here to read about the relief over at Connecticut Local Politics.





Comments (1)
Posted by: derbypolitics | October 24, 2007 5:32 AM
YOU DO NOT KNOW THE TRUTH
Our blog derbypolitics.com is run by four different people who have different views of politics. We try to comment on a many topics that are important to the people of Derby even if they do not see how Pakistan is to them important on a Tuesday morning. Out of this group there are two Independents, a Democrat and a Republican. We post collectively as the TRUTH. We all live in Derby and all vote. Because we are from here are active and know the city we have a unique perspective that people who do not live here do not plus we have the confidence of certain political leaders who provide information and show us proof of claims that they are making or going to make even before they hit the news papers. We agree on one thing in 2007, the people who were eliminated from the ballot by the illegal acts of our Town Clerk Laura Wabno will eventually be vindicated. There are people from all over this state that are attacking Mel Thompson, the candidate for mayor who sued Wabno and other including two sets of bloggers. The people who attack Mel Thompson do not know him they have not seen all of the evidence and are likely the defendants themselves posting stupid remarks to blogs who pretend to be sources of "news". The TRUTH has some news for you, there is evidence of hate crimes and yes the word nigger was used more times than we could count. There were death threats and a police report was filed and yes it is illegal for a town clerk to not turn in petitions for over a month like Laura Wabno did. There is proof of all of this and yes there is proof of each and every claim in Mr. Thompson's law suit. Let us point out to all of you Attorney General wannabes that the use of the term frivolous law suit has been used by right wing extremist in the Bush administration and others to attack civil rights laws that protect people from hate crimes including cross burnings and lynching. The term frivolous law suit has been used to describe suits brought under the American With Disabilities Act by disabled veterans who work to put food on their tables. If it was you who was attacked because of your race, threatened with death and when all of this failed to stop you from running for office in a small city, your petitions which guaranteed you at least a place on the ballot were hidden in a draw and then never notarized by the very person who claimed they would do this, you would be suing. The only thing worse than stupid people are those who do not know the facts and proceed to speak from their asses ( we know the words ass and mouth are interchangeable to many of you) or in their case their own mouths before they read or understand the facts. Finally we keep seeing this reference to the 1st amendment and public persons such as candidates cannot sue. Do you really believe that there are no exceptions to the 1st amendment or defamation laws that have not already been researched and will be applied as this case proceeds? How about the idiots who have called for Mr. Thompson's assets to be researched now to recoup the legal fees for this so called frivolous law suit? Once again many things need to happen and even if Thompson loses it is not show up in court and cut a check to the defendants they need to prove the case had no merit and they also need to win and that is just part of what they need to do. Our advice to all of the internet lawyers out there is clear shut your traps because you do not know nor have you seen any evidence, go back to your paper routes and let the people of Derby and the courts work this out. You will be embarrassed in the end unless you are a white supremacist which all of you sound like and in that case if they lynched Mel Thompson you still would not be happy. And a little bit of parting information, you do not know the TRUTH but the truth know you, figure that out and put your own spin on it. And for God sake stop speaking out of your asses.