The Globe reported last month that Jefferson Thomas, a longtime GOP operative who heads a firm called the Synapse Group, had submitted signatures for Stein in several New Hampshire municipalities.
The complaint from End Citizens United alleges, though, that the Stein campaign must have known about the effort by Republican groups.
Alas, this is from someone who doesn’t know how many House Reps there are. And from a party that recently has gotten tripped up over requirements to get nominated.
I … don’t think we can make any assumptions here on what the Greens must have known or what their intelligence level is.
If Stein had paid Synapse to collect signatures, the campaign would be required to disclose the help on her campaign finance reports.
Isn’t this the point though? The GOP is interfering by helping the Greens, including paying for this themselves instead of having the Greens pay?
“There is no conceivable way IAG and Synapse could have collected, organized, and submitted 4,720 nominating petitions securing the Stein Campaign’s space on the ballot without inside information from the Stein Campaign” about how many signatures it needed and from which parts of the state, the complaint said.
Counterargument - the Greens are leaky like a sieve and this info leaked out, and the GOP operatives got ahold of it that way and went ahead. Goes to my point above - incompetence can really explain everything, and sadly the current Greens seem to have that in abundance.
Stein appears to have minimal support from New Hampshire voters
The silver lining - even if Stein wins the lawsuit she’ll fail to take the election away from Harris in New Hampshire.
Alas, this is from someone who doesn’t know how many House Reps there are. And from a party that recently has gotten tripped up over requirements to get nominated.
I … don’t think we can make any assumptions here on what the Greens must have known or what their intelligence level is.
Isn’t this the point though? The GOP is interfering by helping the Greens, including paying for this themselves instead of having the Greens pay?
Counterargument - the Greens are leaky like a sieve and this info leaked out, and the GOP operatives got ahold of it that way and went ahead. Goes to my point above - incompetence can really explain everything, and sadly the current Greens seem to have that in abundance.
The silver lining - even if Stein wins the lawsuit she’ll fail to take the election away from Harris in New Hampshire.