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<\/a>Two Harvard Law Profs: Tribe and Lessig<\/p><\/div>\n
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You see, winning the law suit didn\u2019t get the Establishment to back-off, and, in the end, fusion hit its own glass ceiling. I talk about my glass ceiling in \u201cThe Third Time\u2019s The Charm,\u201d the ceiling I had when I ran for Mayor. In either case, by \u201cglass ceiling\u201d I mean the attempt to marginalize an idea (or me) from having greater success, not based on merit (or ability), or the promotion of democracy, but rather by fiat from the Powers-That-Be in order to preserve their power, the status quo.<\/p>\n
The State appealed all the way to the United States Supreme Court, and in Timmons vs.<\/i> Twin Cities Area New Party <\/i>(Timmons was the stand-in for Minnesota\u2019s Secretary of State), six of the nine Justices held that the State\u2019s interest in an orderly ballot (pretty paternalistic) trumped the Constitutional Right of Free Association, and voted to give favored status to what they called \u201cthe traditional two party system.\u201d (This despite our case being argued by the Harvard Law Professor known as the \u201cTenth Justice\u201d because of his many appearances before the U.S. Supreme Court on constitutional issues.) So it\u2019s up to you, the Up and Coming Generation, to crack and break glass ceilings. Don\u2019t give-up on Politics! It\u2019s all we have! Read Republic, Lost<\/span>.<\/p>\n Tomorrow: Minnesota Youth Works<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the Secretary of State refused to put my name on the ballot as the New Party\u2019s candidate because I was already on the ballot as the Democratic Party candidate, we sued in federal court and won. The State\u2019s … Continue reading