here are many reasons.
First, the Independent Party of Delaware’s executive committee holds a secret meeting at a Grotto Pizza in Millsboro to name Mike Protack its gubernatorial nominee without notifying the rest of the party’s members.
Second, activist and party member, Liz Allen, who also comments here and elsewhere in the Delaware blogosphere, files suit in the Delaware Chancery Court to force the IPOD to hold a nominating convention and to strip Protack’s name from the IPOD’s ballot line.
In response to this complaint, IPOD chairman vonBaumgart said Allen’s complaint was baseless, motivated by someone who had declared that she would leave the Independent Party to become Democrat. He further said the Executive Committee of the IPOD was within its rights to name a nominee early and inexpensively. His reason to do so?
“We want to get a candidate who has a chance of winning,” he said.
Yes, they silenced the voices of the party’s 600 members because they wanted to choose a candidate who would win, rather than risk the party membership choosing a candidate that would lose. And the candidate they thought could win was…. Mike Protack.
Third, the same Executive Committee voted today to close the party’s state convention to the press.
Not that that matters much, because it is not likely the press and the party membership will be able to find the location of the convention. Which is reason #4:
The convention is scheduled for Wednesday, 6 to 9 p.m., at 32248 Bayshore Blvd. in Long Neck in Sussex County, party officials said. Bayshore Boulevard does not appear on current Sussex County maps, and Google Maps redirects people looking for Bayshore Boulevard to Bayshore Drive.
LOL. I mean, the regular rank and file of the Independent Party of Delaware should just start over if they truly want to have a third party. The IPOD’s leadership would be laughable, if they weren’t so deliberately incompentent.