Nevada is one of six states in which Jill Stein is not on the ballot this year. The Observer has this story about the Nevada Green Party’s petition drive this year. It suggests that the professional petitioning company the party hired submitted fraudulent signatures, which of course greatly injured the Green Party. The publisher of The Observer is Jared Kushner, son-in-law of Donald Trump.
This is disappointing, as I would like there to be as many choices on as many ballots as possible.
I knew someone who was on one of those court shows. Both sides got paid.
There’s a pot of money, greater than the lawsuit’s claim. If the plaintiff wins the lawsuit, the judgement is paid from that pot, and what remains is split 50/50. If the plaintiff does not win, then the whole pot is split 50/50.
Jim said: “That scheme having failed, a few months later they took the Green Party for $17,000.”
The Libertarian Party has also been taken for lots of money over the years by con-artists, in ballot access, as well as in other areas.
Not actors. Con artists. I knew a guy in college who went on one of those tv court shows. I don’t remember which one, but I think they all operate the same way. He said the “loser” in the case doesn’t actually end up paying anything to the winner. The TV show pays the judgement to the winner on behalf of the loser. It’s an incentive to get people on the show.
Adrienne White was asking that divorce court judge to order Nicholas Groce to pay her $2,700 so she could get a pilot’s license. The judge denied the request. Now look at Groce’s face at 19:22, when she orders that he does NOT have to pay $2,700. Does that look like the face of someone glad they don’t have to pay anything?
That scheme having failed, a few months later they took the Green Party for $17,000.
The story gets weirder. I just went on YouTube and found the episode of Divorce Court on which the individuals hired for the Green Party petition drive in Nevada appeared.
I wonder if they are actors.
DIVORCE COURT 17 Full Episode: White vs Groce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uk4LTpbtRo
Two things are funny about this.
1) I talked to somebody in the Green Party about gathering petition signatures for them in Nevada well in advance of the deadline. This person acted like they were going to hire me, and that they were about to get back to me, and then I never heard from them again. So I ended up moving on to other things. If they had taken me up on my offer they’d have ballot access in Nevada right now.
2) I been involved with the world of ballot access petitioning for over 16 years, and I’ve worked in 33 states, and I have never heard of the people that they hired for Nevada.
From the article: “The Nevada Green Party had hired Adrienne White, who founded White Paper Solutions in May 2016, to collect signatures. After the ruling that the Nevada Green Party failed to make the ballot, White and White Paper Solutions disappeared. The website listed under the company’s filing with the Nevada Secretary of State is no longer active, and there is no sign of Adrienne White or the company online. White worked with Nicholas Groce during the ballot petitioning, but both White and Groce were featured on an episode of Divorce Court in February 2016, months before working for the Nevada Green Party.
The Nevada Green Party said Stein missed making the Nevada Ballot because of fraudulent signatures turned in by White Paper Solutions.”
I wonder if by fraudulent signatures they mean signatures that were forged, or do they just mean signatures that were invalid for some other reason, or what.
I know, and know of, lots of people in the world of ballot access, and I have never heard of these people that they hired. They were foolish to not take me up on my offer.