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For Immediate Release
Tuesday, August 27th, 2024

For further information, please contact:
press-secretary@georgiagreenparty.org

Georgia Green Party Prepared to Appeal Judge Malihi Order
Legal options still open to Georgia Green ballot access efforts
Party remains ready to offer ballot qualified opposition to war and genocide

In a series of rulings adverse to the cause of political independence Administrative Law Judge Michael Malihi found reason to support each of the ballot qualification challenges filed by Democrat voters.  Those Democrats seek to deny Georgia voters inclined to vote for Green and independent candidates an opportunity to see their candidates of choice on the Georgia ballot.

Among those adverse rulings, in the case Pigg et al vs Carr et al (the Georgia Green Party slate for Presidential Electors), Judge Malihi rejected every contention of challengers but one.  The Court found that the Georgia Green Party is a registered political body in Georgia and is in compliance with respect to how its Conventions were publicized and conducted, and how its slate of candidates for Presidential Electors was qualified.  The Judge found that the one shortcoming was in the party’s ability to document its place on the ballot in twenty other states under a new statute adopted this past Spring.

“One cannot produce documents which do not yet exist”, said Hugh Esco, Secretary of the Georgia Green Party and the sole witness called in the case.  “As our testimony made clear, Secretary Raffensberger has asked us to produce documents, many of which do not need to be filed in other states until up to three weeks after his early deadline for our filing with his office here in Georgia.  This deadline undermines the intention of the General Assembly and the early date imposed serves no compelling governmental interest.”

Party officers were not surprised by the ruling given the limits imposed by the administrative procedures act which prohibit the consideration of Constitutional concerns by Administrative Law Judges.  Judge Malihi’s Initial Order is now sent to the Secretary of State to inform their final determination.

“We hope though that the Secretary’s office will collaborate with us in recognition of the obvious Constitutional issues raised by the early deadline and save us all the trouble of an appeal to Fulton Superior Court,” said Craig Webster, counsel for Georgia Green Party respondents.

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Executive Summary and Table of Contents
for Supporting Documents for Georgia Green Party’s  21-2-172(g) Affidavit
Supporting_Documentation–executive_summary–toc

Decision of Judge Michael Malihi
Initial_Order–Pigg-v-Carr–2502871–20240826

Georgia Green Party
https://georgiagreenparty.org/

For Immediate Release
Saturday, August 24th, 2024

For further information, please contact:
press-secretary@georgiagreenparty.org

Georgia Green Party files ballot access paperwork
ready to offer ballot qualified opposition to war and genocide
while fending off Democrats intent on excluding Jill Stein from the ballot

On Friday, August 23rd, 2024, with a 3:33pm timestamp, the Elections Division accepted a Presidential Elector Nomination Affidavit, signed by Chairwoman Kristin Zebrowski, on behalf of the Georgia Green Party.  This is the first time this

new process for getting on the ballot has ever been used in Georgia.  It was created by an act of the most recent term of the Georgia General Assembly.

 

While preparing for Friday’s filing deadline, the party faced a challenge mounted by Democrat voters seeking to deny Green voters an opportunity to vote for their candidate of choice.  They have raised a shifting array of arguments each intending that the Georgia Green Party not be able to offer Jill Stein and Rudolph Ware as its Presidential Slate to Georgia voters in the upcoming general election.

The Affidavit was delivered, along with 299 pages of supporting documents by Hugh Esco, Secretary of the Party.  As a witness at Thursday’s hearing Esco told the court,

“I think it’s pretty clear that the Assembly wanted to make it possible for new political bodies, new political parties that have some base of support across the nation to participate in our presidential elections.  I think that that’s a good thing and it ought to be applauded.”

Additional pleadings are expected from both parties by noon, Monday.  The Judge has asked for language for his proposed decisions.  He also offered to consider additional arguments related to new issues not previously briefed and new exhibits offered without notice by petitioners.

Blake Evans, Director of the Elections Division told Esco that he expected a determination by the end of next week.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, July 22d, 2024

For further information, please contact:
press-secretary@georgiagreenparty.org

Green Party calls Frivolous, Candidate Qualification Challenges
Filed on behalf of Biden-aligned SuperPAC
Corporate Interests Choose our Candidates
Before Voters Choose our Elected Officials

In a July 12th complaint filed with the Secretary of State of Georgia, Bondurant, Mixon and Elmore, a corporate law firm in Midtown Atlanta, has challenged the qualifications of the Georgia Green Party to nominate candidates for public office, and particularly in the Presidential race. They filed this action on behalf of Craig Louis Pigg, Catherine Smith, and Mary Lou Waymer. A hearing on the matter is expected before the Office of State Administrative Hearings.

Support is collapsing in key demographics^{1 2} traditionally depended on by the Democrat Presidential bid. The mental competency of their presumptive nominee is being widely questioned, and rumors are flying that Article XXV is under discussion and that next month’s convention in Chicago will, again, toss out the primary results only this time to conduct an open nominating process. In 2016 they ignored Primary voters’ support for Bernie Sanders so that DNC Super Delegates could nominate Clinton^{3 4 5 6}. In 2024, it looks like Biden could be replaced by his party, after they excluded all internal challenges for their nomination from the process.

Biden won by the narrowest of margins in 2020. It is in this context that a super PAC supporting the Biden campaign is funding legal challenges across the nation to ensure that the Democrats face no ballot-qualified opposition competing for the ‘Anyone but Trump’ vote.

“The Clear Choice PAC intends to choose our candidates, and limit voters options before we have an opportunity to choose our elected officials,” said Hugh Esco, Secretary of the Georgia Green Party who for six years chaired the Georgia Voter Choice Coalition. “The corporations have traditionally used the wealth primary for exactly this purpose, and have managed to foreclose policy reforms from within their parties. We know they pitch their sock puppets against one another as a circus to distract voters. Here they seek to also exclude the party we built to represent the interests of working people. And most insulting of all, they fraudulently claim the mantle of democracy as they limit our choices.”

Bondurant, Mixon and Elmore describe themselves as “an elite group of highly-qualified litigators dedicated to winning high-stakes business disputes”. They operate out of a suite of offices on the 39th Floor of One Atlantic Center on Peachtree Street.

Their ballot qualifications challenge relies on the failure of these ‘elite litigators’ to craft an open records request which would elicit the documents they claim do not exist.

The Georgia Green Party first filed its registration as required by law in May 1996. The state political body has subsequently updated after every convention its registration to reflect the changing membership of its state committee and officers. The party’s governing documents, including its Nominating Convention Rules were included in that initial May 1996 filing. Those rules have been subsequently amended more than a dozen times. The latest change was made on November 7th, 2021, and certified to the Secretary’s office shortly thereafter.

“Biden has already been implicated in a campaign of ethnic cleansing acknowledged by the International Court of Justice as a probable genocide. Trump urges that we ‘finish the job’,” said Esco, Secretary of the Georgia Green Party. “If this dark money assault on the democratic rights of Georgia voters is not defeated, Georgia voters will be denied a ballot-qualified slate expressing our opposition to genocide. It’s time we stopped pretending we can export democracy by way of weapons sales and Pentagon deployments and started learning what democracy could look like at home.”

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https://georgiagreenparty.org/

 

1. ‘Not Beholden To Any Party’: Here’s Why Teamsters Union Boss Sean O’Brien Spoke At RNC
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2024/07/16/not-beholden-to-any-party-what-to-know-about-teamsters-union-chief-sean-obrien-who-spoke-at-rnc/

2. Democrats see 31% drop in support among black women
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4777137-black-women-biden-support/

3. Court Concedes DNC Had the Right to Rig Primaries Against Sanders
https://observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders/

4. Democrats rigged the 2016 primary for Hillary Clinton, claims former DNC chair
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/donna-brazile-hillary-clinton-dnc-primary-rigged-bernie-sanders-a8034716.html

5. The DNC owes Bernie Sanders and all Dems an apology
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/358389-the-dnc-owes-bernie-sanders-and-all-dems-an-apology/

6. Former DNC chair torches Clinton in new book
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/donna-brazile-dnc-book/index.html

The Georgia Green Party Platform Committee invites the public to attend a hearing Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 4PM Eastern Time on HR02 – Remove Endorsement of Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights, a proposal to amend the platform. The May 18, 2024 Additional Nominating Convention is scheduled to consider all such platform revisions.

The hearing is scheduled for the purpose of taking the testimony of Jamie Reed, who authored the affidavit which instigated an investigation by the Missouri Attorney General of the St. Louis Transgender Clinic where Ms. Reed was employed for four years.  The story broke in the Free Press, (February 2023) which recently (New Years Eve 2023) revisited her narrative with this.

The teleconference hearing uses the Zoom platform. Registration is required. Use this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkfu2sqjgoGNNT4phwK1b-B_R0KPOSLxcY

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

After Ms. Reed’s opening statement, participants may ask questions. Priority will be given to Platform Committee members, Georgia Green Party State Committee members, then other party members, then residents of the State of Georgia and then others. You may also submit questions in writing to the Platform Committee.

 

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Notice is given that Greens from across Georgia are urged to attend the 2024 Nominating Convention of the Georgia Green Party.

We will convene on Saturday, May 18th, at 10am, with plans to adjourn at 4pm that afternoon. This nominating convention is our opportunity to nominate candidates for public office (including ten vacancies on the state party’s slate for Presidential Electors), elect the party’s internal leadership, consider amendments to the bylaws which have been previously reviewed and amendments to the party Platform.

Green Party members and others registered to participate in the Convention are invited to show up at 9 am to caucus for the purpose of naming delegates from their county to the 2024 Nominating Convention of the Georgia Green Party. This virtual event will be hosted on an online conferencing platform and pre-registration is required.

This meeting will consider nominations for internal party offices, including three two-year seats and five one-year seats on the state committee. The Nominating Convention will also consider proposed amendments to the state party platform and proposed changes to the bylaws as such may have been previously reviewed by the state committee.

Aspiring candidates for partisan public office are urged to reach out to discuss our litigation strategies and how you might participate in this election cycle to open up our ballot access options for future election cycles.

Register Now!

On May 18, 2024, the Georgia Green Party is hosting via teleconference its 2024 Additional Nominating Convention.

Notice is given of, and Greens from across Georgia are urged to attend, the 2024 Nominating Convention of the Georgia Green Party. We will convene on Saturday, May 18th, at 10am, with plans to adjourn at 4pm that afternoon.

This nominating convention is our opportunity to nominate candidates for public office ahead of qualifying for the 2024 General Election, to elect the party’s internal leadership, consider amendments to the bylaws which have been previously reviewed and amendments to the party Platform. Green Party members and others registered to participate in the Convention are invited to show up at 9 am to caucus for the purpose of naming delegates from their county to the 2024 Nominating Convention of the Georgia Green Party. This virtual event will be hosted on an online conferencing platform and pre-registration is required.

This meeting will consider nominations for internal party offices, including eight two-year seats and five one-year seats on the state committee, plus two two-year seats and two one-year seats on the state party’s Delegation on National Green Party Affairs. The Nominating Convention will also consider proposed amendments to the state party platform and proposed changes to the bylaws as such may have been previously reviewed by the state committee.