Nader May Benefit From Bonus Scandal

July 15th, 2008, posted by Greg Palmer

The bonus scandal stole millions from the public, but it could end up saving third-party presidential candidate Ralph Nader $81,000 in legal fees he was ordered to pay after being tossed from the Pennsylvania ballot in 2004.

“It looks like the judgment was the result of a criminal conspiracy,” said Nader’s attorney, Oliver Hall tells the Philadelphia Inquirer. “We will investigate our options to vacate the judgment.”

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Wasn't this judgment due to a conspiracy by Nader's campaign

On July 15th, 2008 KevinC said:

Or did numerous campaign workers just come up with the idea to forge thousands of voter signatures all by themselves.

This reminds me of the TV show Arrested Development. There was an attorney named Bob Loblaw whose TV commercial which states:

“Are you a corporate executive facing these or other charges? You don’t need double talk! You need Bob Loblaw! After all, why should you go to jail for a crime somebody else noticed?”

Poor Ralph

On July 15th, 2008 Anonymous said:

Yes, his campaign did pay people to collect signatures in Philadelphia. The folks he hired canvassed homeless people for their signatures and just forged others. It will probably cost him more to keep chasing the issue in court than it would to just pay the judgement.

No third party must be

On July 15th, 2008 Anonymous said:

No third party must be allowed to disrupt Pennsylvania’s cash flows to professional Democrats and Republicans.
Both join together to stop this sort of uppity radicalism.
Professional Republicans and Democrats agree: People should know better than to disrupt established cash flows. If they don’t, they have to be stopped!

Does 'disrupting established cash flows' justify forging

On July 15th, 2008 KevinC said:

names on nominating petitions? Why didn’t the Nader campaign just collect the signatures legally?

The Democrats who misused state resources should be in jail, along with the Nader people for forgery, fraud, and conspiracy.

Thank you for pointing out

On July 15th, 2008 Anonymous said:

Thank you for pointing out this article’s disconnect in logic. The misuse of state resources on the political task of investigating nominating petitions does not, and never will, justify the collection and reporting of fradulant signatures. It’s this very same disconnect that causes so many policy problems.