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Class Action Suits and the Constitution |
January 27, 2010 |
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CLASS ACTION SUITS ARE CONSTITUTIONALLY
DUBIOUS
As Director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO),
one of my key objectives was to close down the radical Left-wing
Legal Services program. I even had a promise, confirmed by
Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), Congressman Lamar Baker (R-Tenn.),
Senator Jim McClure (R-Idaho), and others that President Nixon
would veto a proposal to establish a Federal Legal Services
Corporation.
Unfortunately, then White House Chief of Staff Al Haig
succumbed to pressure from Senators Alan Cranston (D-Calif.),
Walter Mondale (D-Minn.), Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.), and Robert Taft
(R-Ohio) that, if Nixon did not sign the Legal Services
Corporation legislation, money for his Watergate lawyers would
be terminated.
The Legal Services program operated on a supposed mandate to
promote "group representation", "community education", and "law
reform". "Community education" meant the promotion of Saul
Alinsky-style, Marxist-Socialist propaganda, "law reform" meant
placing Left-wing lobbyists in virtually every state legislature
and "group representation" meant creating Left-wing activist
groups, promoting everything from homosexuality and abortion to
welfare rights.
A key element of the Legal Services agenda was the class
action suit.
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Sumner Whittier |
January 22, 2010 |
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WHITTIER WAS ONE OF THE BEST BAY STATE
POLITICIANS
Sumner G. Whittier, who died recently at the age of 98, was
my friend when he was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and,
subsequently, a candidate for Governor of the Bay State.
Whittier was a very fine man with the incredible gift for
memorizing dozens of names of people whom he had just met in
large gatherings. It is a tragedy that, when he ran for Governor
of the Commonwealth, he was defeated by Endicott "Chub" Peabody,
a very liberal Democrat and former Harvard All-American football
player.
MARION HURLEY WAS A STEADFAST LEADER
FOR CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES
My dear friend, Marion M. Hurley, died on September 15:
Marion was a strong supporter of The Constitution Party and
my various Presidential candidacies.
DR. HURWITZ WAS A COURAGEOUS EDUCATOR
My beloved friend, Dr. Howard L. Hurwitz, "educator, author
and former principal of Long Island City High School died on September
23 at age 91 of natural causes.
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