Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Upstart Group Wins Legal Battle Over Control of the Reform Party

 

A judge has dismissed a legal challenge against a group that usurped control of the Reform Party in New York State in September.

The Reform Party has existed in the state since members split with the Independence Party in advance of the 2000 presidential elections. It gained official party status after Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino won 50,000 votes on the Stop Common Core line in 2014. When he renamed this new line the Reform Party the next year, he merged it with the existing organization.

But this September, a number of individuals who had recently enrolled in the party, including Staten Island radio host Frank Morano and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, won elections to serve as committee members for the party. In a September meeting, they elected Sliwa chair and enacted a new set of organizational rules. 

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Source: Politico (via The Empire Report) 

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