Friday, March 24, 2006

41: “Operation Clean Sweep Amends Lawsuit”


This just in from friend Russ Diamond at Operation Clean Sweep, the organization behind around 100 candidates for election to the General Assembly in an effort to unseat the incumbents:

PACleanSweep Moves to Amend Federal Suit
filing includes evidence of activity inside the Capitol

ANNVILLE, PA [03.23.06] - Legal counsel for PACleanSweep and its founder Russ Diamond today filed an Motion to Amend and a First Amended Complaint in their ongoing federal suit against House Republican staffer Bob Nye and others. The First Amended Complaint includes evidence of computer activity within the Capitol in Harrisburg in connection with Nye’s anti-PACleanSweep website.

An email notice regarding the website, carrying a domain name registered by Nye on February 8, was distributed to PACleanSweep supporters, candidates and coordinators in the early morning hours of February 11 and grabbed headlines across the state just before candidates for state office were to begin gathering signatures to get their names on the May 16 primary ballot.

The Amended Complaint includes evidence from logs provided in response to a federal subpoena which indicates that at least one computer with an IP number assigned inside the Capitol logged activity on the anti-PaCleansweep website on February 9-10, before the information was disseminated to the general public. Also included is evidence of subsequent activity from at least five other IP numbers within the Capitol, from both the state House and the Senate.

Nye submitted a declaration to the Federal Court claiming he worked alone constructing the website, using only a personal computer located at his home in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County.
Keep at them Russ. To misquote in the Latin, “Non Illegitimi carborundum est.” And let’s do get a good sweep out of the General Assembly, starting by reducing the field of incumbents as a result of the May Primary.

While we’re at it, we thought you might enjoy this little tidbit, courtesy of our good friends at Operation Clean Sweep:

Hopefully, this will not only reach some of the knuckle-heads keeping the money, but will show them how ludicrous their behavior is.


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