The case was set for Dec 1 and Elaine Brown won her motion for a continuance until Dec 19. Now that Dec 19 is next week, the word around Brunswick is that Elaine Brown and Zack Lyde decided at the last minute to drop their contests of election lawsuit. Yes they both filed a lawsuit.

The truth of the matter won out. Elaine Brown was not a legal resident of Brunswick for at least 12 months and could not run for office. Otherwise she would of continued to fight this case if she felt in her heart that she was within the law.

Is the matter done? Only Elaine Brown and her friends know.

A counter suit against Elaine Brown is still pending.

Green Party Victories in 2005
from the Gree Party Website
http://www.gp.org
Updated 12.02.2005

CORRECTION: GP.org previously listed James Brooks and Gladys Lyde as Green Party candidates for Brunswick, GA City Commission. Neither candidate ran on the Green Party ticket. We apologize for the error.

Thank you to the Green Party for setting the record straight that neither Otis Herrington or Gladys Martin-Lyde were running under the Green Party banner. Now we await the Green Party to admit that Elaine Brown was not running under the Green Party banner either.

In fact none of the candidates were listed as running under any party banner.

Suit seeks to null vote

Sat, Nov 19, 2005

Ousted mayoral candidate goes to state court

By KEITH LAING

The Brunswick News

Brunswick mayor-elect Bryan Thompson was able to fend off opponents Otis Herrington and Betsy Bean in last week’s municipal election, but he is still being challenged by Elaine Brown.

Brown, a mayoral candidate until the Glynn County Board of Elections removed her from the ballot because she did not meet a one-year residency requirement, has filed suit in Glynn County Superior Court, contesting the results of the Nov. 8 vote and asking that a new election be held.

Brown based her request on her claims that Thompson, as president of the non-profit development group Blueprint Brunswick which has received money from the city, holds an incompatible office and that the elections board improperly removed her from the ballot.

Zack Lyde, a supporter of Brown’s failed campaign, filed a similar action.

Elections board chair Patricia Gibson said Friday she is confident the results of the election will stand, while Brown said that although she was not sure how a court would rule, but felt compelled to make her case.

“I’m not sure how far it will go, but there are a lot of people in despair (over the election result), so I want to let the challenge play itself out,” she said.

Brown, a former national president of the Black Panther party, reiterated her claim that Thompson cannot be both mayor and Blueprint Brunswick president because the organization received initial funding from the county and city and because it reserves positions on its board of directors for the mayor and the chair of the county commission.

Thompson declined to comment Friday on Brown’s action, but has previously said through his attorney that there is no conflict between his public and private roles because Blueprint Brunswick is a non-govermental agency and the mayor can appoint another commissioner to its board of directors.

The debate on whether of not the positions conflict is not new. It became an issue in the hotly contested mayoral race, with both Brown and Bean raising it regularly at candidate forums. In September, Bean challenged Thompson’s qualification by the elections board to be a candidate, but the board found that no conflict existed.

Thompson’s attorney, Austin Catts, said that the fact that ruling was not challenged should have been sufficient in answering it.

“The issue has been fully heard by the board of elections and no challenge had been made,” he said. “I realize that Ms. Brown was not party to it, but the issue has been fully aired.”

Catts pointed to Thompson’s margin of victory as evidence of his qualification to hold the mayoral position.

“The voters of Brunswick have elected Mr. Thompson by a sweeping majority, (so) we believe this challenge has no merit,” he said Friday of the action Brown filed Tuesday.

Thompson received nearly 64 percent of the more than 1,900 votes cast in the citywide election.

No date has been set for a hearing or ruling on Brown’s challenge.

Now, he thinks posting an article about an “alleged” crime by someone else somehow justifies his statements about Elaine Brown.

You are not only petty, but a creep with too much time on your hands ! GET A LIFE ! Go feed the hungry in your community…do SOMETHING other than this !

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 17, 2005
CONTACT: Cathy Browning, 912-996-6523

(Brunswick, Georgia)

MAYORAL ELECTION TO BE CONTESTED

Former candidate for mayor Elaine Brown has filed a Petition in Glynn County Superior Court contesting the result of the mayoral election of November 8, 2005. The Affidavits of poll watchers and monitors attest to misconduct, fraud and irregularity in the conduct of the election and place the results in doubt.
Brown states that despite the Order by U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Alaimo, the Glynn County Board of Elections did not “preserve and tally” her write-in votes. Brown also charges that her name was illegally removed from the ballot. She has notified the two other mayoral candidates, Betsy Bean and Otis Herrington, of her contest of the election.
Bryan Thompson Ineligible to Hold Office
Relatedly, Brunswick activist Zack Lyde filed an additional contest on the same grounds as Brown.
Brown also contests the election on the grounds that Bryan Thompson is not eligible to hold office because he is CEO of Blueprint Brunswick, Inc., which receives City funding. Under the legal doctrine of “incompatible offices,” it is illegal for a person to be an official of a government that funds his own company.

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What is the purpose of this post? Why exactly is this posted in relation to Elaine Brown?

I leave it up only as a warning. There will be no more posts on THIS blog that attempt inferential character assassinations.

Pretty slimy.

Now another Georgia Green Party leader, Green Party State Senate Candidate and brother of Zack Lyde, is under indictment.

Best of luck to the Lyde Family, Elaine Brown and the Georgia Green Party in fighting all these lawsuits in Brunswick, Georgia.

Man faces molestation indictment
Fri, Nov 18, 2005
By JACK MORSE
The Brunswick News

A Glynn County man who once ran for the state House of Representatives was indicted Wednesday on two counts of aggravated child molestation and two counts of child molestation.

The September term of the Glynn County Grand Jury indicted Harry T. Lyde Jr. of Glynn County on the four counts, three involving the same alleged victim.
Under Georgia law, aggravated child molestation involves physical injury to a victim or sodomy. The indictment of Lyde alleges sodomy.

The indictment said the alleged events took place on or before Dec. 28, 2003. Both alleged victims were under the age of 16 at the time of the alleged offenses, according to the indictment.

When contacted Thursday by The News at a cell phone with a north Georgia area code, Lyde said he was unaware of the indictment and said the allegations surprised him. The indictment listed no address for Lyde.

Ladell Jackson, a Glynn County Police Department detective who is conducting the investigation, said Lyde was made aware of the allegations in October 2004, when the investigation began.

Jackson said an alleged victim made the allegations at that time after first relating them to a friend of the family.

He said the two then went to the police department, giving officers a reason to investigate the allegations against Lyde.

Jackson said it is common for an investigation to take more than a year. He said the investigation of the allegations against Lyde is ongoing.

In the 2002 race for state representative, Lyde, a Green Party candidate, waged a failed campaign against incumbent state Rep. Jerry Keen, R-St. Simons Island.

The story can be found at http://www.thebrunswicknews.com/front/284737230722384.php

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 10, 2005
CONTACT: 912-262-9811

THE FIGHT CONTINUES!

Even though the racist, Republican-backed opposition to Elaine Brown’s campaign for mayor of Brunswick, Georgia, succeeded in removing her name from the November 8th ballot–AND taking away her right to vote!—a federal court judge, at the 11th hour, on November 7th, ruled the local Board of Elections had to count her votes! IN OTHER WORDS, ELAINE HAD ONLY HOURS TO MOUNT ANOTHER CAMPAIGN TO CONVINCE BLACKS THEIR VOTES FOR HER WOULD NOW BE COUNTED.

By then, of course, the majority black population of Brunswick, slated to vote for Elaine and make her the City’s first black mayor, had already sat out the five-day advance voting period and really didn’t know or believe they could vote for Elaine on Election Day. Her name was still not on the ballot. So, black voter turnout was low, and the Republican-backed candidate was declared the winner.

ELAINE IS GOING BACK TO FEDERAL COURT! She will
· challenge the election results
· contest the election on grounds of gross
misconduct and fraud
· get her name back on the voter rolls
· demand a new and fair election

ELAINE’S CAMPAIGN STILL NEEDS YOUR HELP!

Contributions can be sent electronically via Elaine’s Website, http://www.elainebrown.org, or by mail to: Friends of Elaine Brown for Mayor, 139 Altama Connector, #107, Brunswick, Georgia 31525. For more information, call: 912-262-9811.
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I live here too, and I never heard of any death threats or violence. Not sure where you are getting your information.

Faced with the prospect of a progressive black woman becoming mayor was way too much for those that want to tear this city apart and repeat the historical nation-wide dispossession of those living at or below the poverty level.

Let me remind you that 70% of the residents are black and do not want to suffer the consequences of redevelopment and gentrification because these plans certainly don’t include THEM.

Please note that out of 16,000 residents, only approximately 7,500 are REGISTERED VOTERS. So, your 98.5% is dead wrong.

In case you had not been following the campaign, the Glynn County Board of Elections disqualified her as a candidate and voter on October 14th. This was done with no evidence and was in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the U.S. Constitution, and the Official Code of Georgia.

The decision came after 5 p.m. and without taking a vote of the Board, it was decided they would remove Brown from the ballot. They had the ballots reprinted over the weekend in time to send out the Absentee Ballot on Oct. 18.

The opposition, including power brokers and developers from Sea Island and beyond continued with their “plan to get Brown off the ballot” when Senior Superior Court Judge Pope upheld the Board’s decision.

Without a name on the ballot and newspaper coverage that votes for her would not count, voters were disenfranchised.

One day before the election, Brown filed a petition in federal court. Judge Alaimo ruled that the Board had to preserve a record of her write-ins pending a trial on the merits of her case.

The Board of Elections was not expecting this and voiced their opinions in print.

On Election Day, Brown’s name was not on the list of write-ins.

So this “illusion of democracy” you obviously are touting is bullshit.

Poll Watchers have already reported misconduct at every city precinct and the election will probably be contested based on this, while Brown pursues her case in the courts.

When the law is selectively used by local election boards, judges, state election divisions, and any others—you have the right to seek justice in all courts, including the federal Supreme Court.

So, if you are dismayed that Brown is exercising her rights and continuing her case in the courts, then I suggest you think again.

None of us should be content with this “managed democracy.”

1) Killed by the cops (like Bobby Hutton, Mark Clark, Fred Hampton, George Jackson, Alex Rackley, Nathaniel Clark, Arthur Morris, John Huggins, Alprentice Carpenter, Sylvester Bell, John Savage, Franko Diggs, Larry Roberson, Stephen Bartholomew, Robert Lawrence, Terence Lewis, Walter Pope, Welston Armstead, Spurgeon Winters, and several untold others).
2) Still in jail without parole (like Sundiata Acoli, Robert Seth Hays, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Sekou Odinga, Sekou Kambui, Russel Shoats, John Bowman, Robert Seth Hayes and untold others).
3) In exile: (like Don Cox, Assata Shakur, Pete O’Neal, Kathleen Cleaver, and others).
4) Discredited in the mainstream (Angela Davis, Geronimo Pratt, Saeed Ahmed, and now Elaine Brown).

Meanwhile, ex-KKK Grand Wizard Robert Byrd has been serving in the senate for 47 years. God forbid Elaine Brown be elected mayor in Brunswick, Georgia.