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Published Monday, Oct. 4, 2010 | 2:59 p.m.
Updated Monday, Oct. 4, 2010 | 3:06 p.m.
Conservative rabble-rousers Dan Burdish and Chuck Muth have formed a new political party in the state: the Organized Labor Party of Nevada.
Upset that Secretary of State Ross Miller allows a party to be formed without signatures from 1 percent of the voters in the last election, Burdish said they’ve decided to launch the Organized Labor Party in protest.
The party’s bylaws stand in stark contrast to what an actual organized labor political party would likely stand for, including opposition to card check, support of the paycheck protection and allowing unions to decertify through card check. The party also supports voter approval of public employee collective bargaining agreements.
“If the Tea Party of Nevada is a misnomer, we thought we’d be a misnomer ourselves,” Burdish said. “Nothing in our preamble or bylaws is anything any union is going to support.”
Burdish had filed an unsuccessful lawsuit to get Tea Party of Nevada candidate Scott Ashjian kicked off the ballot, arguing he didn’t collect the necessary signatures to establish a political party.
It’s too late for the Organized Labor Party to get on this year’s ballot in an attempt to siphon votes away from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. But Burdish said that might be an option next cycle if conservatives want to drain support from a Democrat.
“If nothing else, it’s just to thumb our nose at Miller for doing what he’s doing with the tea party,” Burdish said.
Reducto ad absurdium in action. Gotta love it.
Jeez, don't those 2 kids have anything better to do with their time? Like go play in heavy freeway traffic???
Looks like the party's breaking up already!
Pathetic. They have nothing to offer but conspiracy theories and childish games. In case anyone was wondering how serious the teabaggers actually take our electoral process, here's the proof (that they don't).
Time to call out the union thugs who control the Democratic Party and aim to screw the taxpayers of Nevada. The public employee union leadership has become the most nefarious influence in Nevada politics. Government workers don't have to submit to the outrage of having their union dues being used against their will to fund the campaigns of Democrats whose aim is to increase the already significant disparity bwtween the salaries and benefits of those in the public sector and those in the private sector who have to pay for them. That's one reason Harry Reid has to go. He sold his soul to these unions goons long ago. The BIG LIE is that the Democrats are the party of the working man and woman, when, in fact, they have become the party of the public employee unions, and, primarily, their leadership. Intelligent government workers realize that these public-private disparities are unjust and destined to bankrupt the system that provides their pensions and health care.
Israel set up Hammas as a way of taking support away from the PLO. Be careful what you wish for.
Cool off left wing socialists!
This is an attempt to correct an obvious problem with the Nevada Elections Laws and enforcement, not some vast right wing conspiracy to undermine the hole you have dug for yourselves.
These guys are spot on for using this plan to expose a problem with the system and the idiots running it. I think it's ingenious, quite original and I applaud their efforts.
The two gentlemen are exercising their natural and inherent rights as guaranteed by the Constitution. I applaud the action and will probably join the group.
Thank you