Westchester (NY) Independence Party must hold a new reorganization meeting
Westchester’s chapter of the Independence Party must hold a reorganization meeting within the next two months following a state judge’s ruling that many party members – especially opponents of the current leadership – were not made aware of its last effort to elect officers. You can read the rest of the article here.
I don’t know enough about the Independence Party to defend the actions of their Westchester chapter, but I think the medicine is worth the disease here. I don’t like the idea of state courts meddling in internal party affairs.
December 10th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
There are four places in the United States called Westchester. Which is this referring to?
December 10th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
The Independence Party the article is reffering to is the Independence Party of New York’s Westchester county affiliate.
December 10th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
I thought the name Sayegh sound a little familiar; the NY Independence Party has been fight an ongoing internal battle between a faction led by Dr. Leonora Fulani (leader of a group called the New Aliiance Party, which appears to be a political-pyschiatric cult, founded in the ‘70s by a therapist last name of Newman). The Fulani factrion took control of the IP in the 1990s, then an anti-Fulani faction took over the state party just a couple years ago.
Here’s a news story sort of laying out the basic issues behind the faction fight.
http://www.ex-iwp.org/docs/2006/ip96.html
December 10th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
Thanks for clearing the geography up.