Ben Winslow at fox13now.com via Cody Quirk at A3PR:
SALT LAKE CITY — In a new legal filing, the Constitution Party of Utah is asking taxpayers to shell out more than $53,000 for attorneys fees in fighting the state over a lawsuit over the so-called “Count My Vote compromise” law.
The Constitution Party said the costs were incurred joining the Utah Republican Party in its lawsuit against Senate Bill 54, which provides an alternative to candidates to get on the ballot by gathering signatures versus the caucus/convention system. The Utah GOP sued Governor Gary Herbert and the state, arguing it violated their First Amendment right to free association…
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“Andy,” the headline is directly from the source, adding only “Utah:” and the non-disputed, as far as I know, detail that the money is being sought from taxpayers. What do you feel is misleading about it and how is it a smear? Also, what was the other one that you believe was misleading or a smear?
I think that this is the second time that “wang tang fu” has posted a misleading headline involving the Constitution Party as a way to unfairly smear them. This is bad journalism in my opinion.
They were the most aggressive about spreading their religions. At least Christians and Muslims have been, Jews take sort of the opposite approach – you have to come to us of your own accord and prove you are worthy if you want to join.
It certainly IS interesting that roughly half of the world celebrates a religion which stems from the Abrahamic God.
Thanks for the cite. I enjoy studying comparative religion, and am interested in the connections between them, along the lines laid out by Joseph Campbell and others.
Paulie,
My parent’s are both members of the Baha’i Faith which does believe that all religions are one. I am rather persuaded by the argument that all religions are not one.
God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World by Stephen Prothero
http://amzn.com/B003F1WMAC
Give that man a prize. In his next article he will reveal that Hinduism actually isn’t Jewish at all.
Hey, he wanted to emphasize that.
Well of course it isn’t. Duh!
Speaking of the Constitution Party…
http://amthirdpartyreport.com/2015/12/26/milwaukee-county-constitution-party-islam-isnt-christian/
The question here, however, is would the $53k go straight to paying off the legal fees, or would it go elsewhere?
The story says such attorneys fees are normal in any civil case. That is not true. But when private individuals sue a state government over civil rights (which includes voting rights), and when the individuals win, they are entitles to attorneys fees. That has been true since 1976, when Congress passed the “equal access to justice” act. If it weren’t for that law, very few ballot access constitutional cases would ever get filed. The amount the party is asking for is relatively modest. When John B. Anderson beat Ohio over the March petition deadline, his attorneys got $500,000 from Ohio, and that was in 1980 dollars.