Recently the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (oh, what the heck; just call them CDAAIIRFEBAMN) filed a complaint against the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative for laundering money, other financial irregularities, and being mean, evil people. (Just kidding, about that last one). This week the Michigan Secretary of State dismissed CDAAIIRFEBAMN’s complaint.
Now MCRI has turned the tables, filing a complaint on Thursday claiming that CDAAIIRFEBAMN “intentionally underreported its campaign contributions.”
That allowed BAMN to avoid a trigger that would require it to open up its donor and expenditure records, according to the complaint, which MCRI spokesman Chetly Zarko said he faxed to the Michigan Secretary of State’s office Thursday afternoon….
The anti-affirmative action group is asking that BAMN and its lawyers be penalized for filing a frivolous complaint. The new complaint also accuses BAMN of its own campaign violations.
“They filed a complaint against us, and that prompted us to look at their campaign finance reports,” Zarko said.
Zarko’s letter to state elections officials said his organization regretted “the significant waste of public resources BAMN’s frivolous and politically motivated complaint has generated.”
If it were up to me, I would fine CDAAIIRFEBAMN for having a pretentious, tendentious name that takes up too much space.
John,
You meant “tendentious,” right? Did it look like a suspiciously too-good-to-be-true rhyme?
But the name is quite something.
Actions like both of these DO waste resources better devoted to solving real problems that are causing real pain to the litigants, but which are delayed by crap like these politically motivated actions. Getting rid of liberal judges who attempt to subvert the legislative process in America will cut back on this stuff. Ask any citizen (of any political stripe) who is currently involved in real litigation in Michigan if they are willing to add a month or two to the court date of their case so that the court system can wrangle over this matter. Ancillary point: try getting your, say, boundary dispute moved up for immediate consideration like these political cases get – Sorry Charlie, wait your turn for a year or more. Repeat: The cause of this problem is liberal judges.
This story has a little more detail. I apologize that I can’t just link to it, but it requires a subscription. JG
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MIRS Capitol Capsule, Thursday, June 9, 2005 -LANSING
BAMN Complaint Dismissed/MCRI Fires Back
The complaint filed by the group “By Any Means Necessary” BAMN, which is opposing the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, a ballot proposal to end racial preferences, was dismissed this week by the Department of State.
In a letter to BAMN attorney George B. WASHINGTON, Administrative Law Judge John D. BOYD wrote BAMN’s complaint that MCRI deliberately violated the Michigan Campaign Finance Act (MCFA), by laundering three fourths of the campaign contributions it received through a California organization, was without merit.
Boyd added that records filed with the state show that the American Civil Rights Coalition (ACRC) was in fact registered with the state as a ballot question committee and has been registered since 2003.
MCRI announced in a news release today that it plans to ask for sanctions against BAMN and its attorneys, saying the group intentionally failed to note what the Department of Secretary independently determined was obvious
Sorry for the larger than usual number (I hope) of misspellings. I was typing on an alien computer, in San Francisco no less. I’ve now fixed them, or at least all I could find.
This gang of thugs (BAMN) led the chant “No Justice, No Peace” in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the Gratz case was being argued (I was there and heard it, though no news organization reported it to my knowledge).
In my opinion, that action was a thinly-veiled threat of violence, had the Supreme Court struck down racial/gender preference-based AA. They should be investigated and prosecuted BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
Oh, BAMN definitely threatens violence, if that’s what it takes. In fact they’ve been quoted as saying “If we have to destroy some things, we will destroy some things,” (see link below) Their co-chair (Luke Massie) also is proud of the fact that he counterfeited federal court tickets and encouraged others/helped others counterfeit tickets to get into some of the Gratz and Grutter court hearings. Check it out: http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/12394
Jennifer:
When BAMN makes threats such as this one (“If we have to destroy some things, we will destroy some things”) and then carries them out, the full weight of the federal government should be used to prosecute them under the RICO statutes.
They are using coercion to unduly influence the legal system. It’s time they were broken apart, just like any other organized crime gang.