Phantom Members of the Independence Party
The state Independence Party organization has taken the unusual step of forming a three-member panel (sound familiar?) to investigate the party's county organizations and see if their rosters contain phantom party members. (This, according to IP member Frank Morano, who is perhaps best known in NY political circles for an ostensibly earnest effort to draft Lindsay Lohan into politics.)
State party rules require a certain number of active members to be on a county organization's committee in order for it to have the power to endorse candidates and function autonomously. Morano said that he and others suspect some organizations have on their committees people who never asked to be there, people who moved out of state and others who are ineligible to serve.
The members of this new panel include Tom Connolly, who chairs the Rensselaer County organization, state party secretary Bill Bogart and Morano.
All three are loyalists of state chairman, Frank MacKay, who is in a protracted fight with Lenora Fulani and others in the party.
For those of you who could benefit from a quick review: MacKay says that Fulani is a racist and her followers are under the spell of a cult led by pseudo-psychologist Fred Newman, while Fulani and her people say that MacKay is a racist and a pawn of the Democratic and Republican Parties.
Imagine those IP holiday parties!
-- Azi Paybarah
Has anyone checked to see what Lindsey Lohan's position on this?
I hear Frank is planning a Draft Lindsey Rally in Battary Park for April
what a bunch of clowns! When is the lobster race? Who will Regan mask endorse...how pathetic
So if I'm reading this correctly, Azi is criticizing the party for taking steps to verify that they are following the rules. This sounds like a positive step and should be the example for all parties. Sounds like an unknown reporter with an Ax to grind is trying to create controversy where none exists.