A suit that's not winnable
This may not be a surprise to anyone, but the campaign website for Stacy Leeds is now hosted on the hardware that also hosts the Koufax website. I fixed the Blix theme for Drupal 5.x, as Stacy's original tech support selected that theme, using Wordpress, and replicated the content over the weekend, going live last Sunday.
The following is from the Muskogee Phoenix, and the best part about it is the recognition of the motivation for the special election -- not preservation of culture or limiting distribution of benefits -- the messages used by the proponents of the special election, but the crass, early-Rehnquist motive of voter suppression -- in a polity that has fewer than 10% turn out, a history of Constitutional crisis, and almost seven decades in the 20th century of total failure of the political system.
"I just think this is a suit that's not winnable (for the Cherokee Nation) on the issues at hand," Cherokee Nation Councilor Linda O'Leary, chair of the Executive and Finance Committee, said Wednesday."When we're talking about civil liberties, then we are on the losing end of the stick here."
O'Leary said Principal Chief Chad Smith was the main supporter of the special election to disenfranchise Freedmen.
"Chad did this for political reasons to keep the Freedmen from voting (in the upcoming election) -- and the Cherokee Nation will have to spend millions of dollars in legal funds," O'Leary said.
Cherokee Nation spokesman Mike Miller said the Cherokee Nation is being sued.
"It's not our choice whether we spend money to defend ourselves or not," Miller said. "It was not a lawsuit we filed, but a lawsuit filed against us."
If any Wampum readers or linkers want to contribute to the best candidate, the author of the Cherokee Supreme Court decision that, under the Cherokee Nation's laws, exclusion of the Freedmen was unconstitutional, let me know, or click on over to Stacy's campaign site and click on the contribute link.
Jack Abramoff gave to Chad Smith, so you can give to Stacy Leeds. Its that simple.
