The Wall Street Journal reports "Texas Democrats have filed a lawsuit after learning that an out-of-state Republican consultant helped the Green Party qualify for the state's general-election ballot for the first time since 2002—a surprising turn of events Democrats claim is a plot to hurt their gubernatorial candidate in November. The Texas Democratic Party filed the suit Thursday against Arizona-based consultant Timothy F. Mooney, a Missouri group called Take Initiative America Inc., the Texas Green Party and 'unknown conspirators,' alleging a slew of state election-law violations. The state suit followed a June 6 report in the Dallas Morning News that detailed how Mr. Mooney had hired a signature-gathering firm to collect nearly 92,000 voter signatures to get the Green Party on the Texas ballot, with Take Initiative America bankrolling the effort."
In other Green Party lawsuit news,
Ballot Access News reports "On June 11, Ralph Nader sued the Federal Election Commission in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C....Nader’s complaint is that the FEC never investigated the failure of the Democratic National Committee and its allies to report their expenses when they spent millions of dollars to keep him off the ballot in 2004. Also, certain legal corporations appear to have illegally made large contributions to the Democratic Party, by their legal services to the Democratic Party, in violation of federal campaign law.
Here is the 31-page Complaint."