According to an interested observer, the Charleston SC Democratic Party’s attempt to keep Eugene Platt off the November ballot in SC House District 115 as the SC Green Party’s nominee has failed today in state court. The Democratic Party did apparently secure an injunction, but the injunction prevents Platt from campaigning for write-in votes [...]

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One of the disadvantages or citizen journalism is that in this case the citizens are making the news too. This is one reason we have an “editorial” category. As we focus in our “real” lives on certain issues or campaigns it is natural that we will write a lot about that topic. [...]

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Green Party Watch Radio will host South Carolina’s only elected Green, Eugene Platt, this Sunday from 3 to 3:30 East Coast Time.
Platt is at the center of a legal battlefield. He has been sued in state court by Charleston County Democratic Party Chair George Tempel to keep him off the November ballot. Platt [...]

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Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente are now officially on South Carolina’s November ballot as the Green Party nominee. In addition Harvey Elwood in listed as our nominee in State Senate District 20, Antonio Williams is listed as our candidate in State House District 74, and C. Faye Walters is listed as our candidate in [...]

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In a letter hand delivered today to Eugene Platt, Green Party nominee for South Carolina State House District 115, Attorney F. Truett Nettles, II told Platt that he had filed a case against Platt in the Charleston County Court of Common Pleas.
The Nettles Law Office LLC used the good services of the Charleston County Sheriff’s [...]

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Green Party Watch uses a “spam catcher” to…well…catch spam. The filter has caught a lot of spam, which is good, but an occasional non-spam post gets caught up in the works. If you have posted a comment and don’t see it, please drop us a note so we will know to look for [...]

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Eugene Platt and the South Carolina Green Party were recently represented by the ACLU who filed suit in federal court seeking to overturn the Election Commission staff decision to subject the Green Party nomination to a second test via the Democratic Primary. To date the judge has not ruled on the injunction.
Even so I [...]

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Major thanks go to Scott West for bringing this exciting news to us.
Eugene Platt and the South Carolina Green Party have gotten editorial support for their case brought against the South Carolina Election Commission by the American Civil Liberties Union from the New York Times owned Spartanburg Herald Journal. In their editorial, which you [...]

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It’s Case # 08-2790 and has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Joseph Anderson Jr. Judge Anderson has ruled in some of South Carolina’s most recent high profile cases, including former State Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, who was sentenced by Anderson to only 10 months in jail after a conviction on possession of “less than [...]

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In a 15 page brief, the South Carolina Green Party has filed suit, with the American Civil Liberties Union providing legal representation, to secure their rights to nominate candidates of their choice.
The candidate in question, Eugene Platt was denied his place on the November ballot in his race for State House District 115 [...]

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Yes, I get to be Perry Mason tomorrow. Or maybe Matlock?
Tomorrow at 4 PM I will appear before the state Elections Commission to argue that their staff’s decision to refuse to place the SC Green Party nominee, Eugene Platt, on the ballot because he lost the Democratic nomination, despite the fact that he won [...]

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My last post was about South Carolina’s first elected official, Eugene Platt. Platt has served the voters of James Island since 1993, and has joined the Green Party. I will post more about that later today, along with a TON of other material. I will try to push a lot of information [...]

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Eugene Platt joined the South Carolina Green Party formally earlier this year, and sought the Green Party nomination for South Carolina House of Representatives from District 115. Platt won that nomination at the state convention on May 3rd.
South Carolina Greens were unaware at the time that Platt joined that the party had it’s first [...]

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