From today’s The Carolina Journal, David Larson reports:

The North Carolina Green Party had its petition to be recognized as an official party in state elections denied, in a 3-2 party-line vote, at the N.C. State Board of Elections on June 30. But the NCGP is crying foul, alleging the Elias Law Group — a powerful firm used by national Democrats, which was also successful in getting North Carolina’s election maps thrown out — used lying, bullying, and harassment to influence the decision.

As reported, the North Carolina Green Party had submitted over 22,500 signatures in their petition campaign to get on the ballot in the fall so that Marine veteran and peace activist Matthew Hoh could run as a Green in the U.S. Senate race against Democrat Cheri Beasley, Republican Ted Budd, and Liberarian Shannon Bray. County boards of elections across the state, who have the duty to verify those signatures, accepted around 16,000 of them, well over the 13,865 required to get the party on the ballot.

The article is replete with links to recorded phone calls, texts and visits to voters showing the extreme efforts of national and state Democrats to wreck the Green Party and its campaign to get on the ballot, including direct threats of criminal prosecution by state authorities.

The paper goes on to describe the State Board of Elections proceeding denying the Green’s petition for ballot access (on a purely party line vote, with all 3 Democrats voting against and both Republicans for) turned out to be a raw exercise of power by the hyper-partisan Democrats during which the Greens and their lawyer were barred from questioning what the board was saying.

The article closed with these words from North Carolina Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate Matthew Hoh:

We represent single-payer health care. We represent affordable housing. We represent living wages, action on the climate, etc, etc. And those things aren’t represented by the Beasley campaign at all. They claim to be for working-class people, but you and I know, the Democratic Party, it’s been decades since they’ve addressed the needs of working class people.

Original source can be found here.