Check out this doosy.

I'm indirectly named in this lawsuit, because I'm a member of the Derby Republican Town Committee. If you check out my political site and click on Commentary, you'll see I posted a story about someone emailing me. That person, probably, was this guy filing the suit. He has horrible spelling, grammar, and obviously thinks the world is out to get him. I haven't been notified of this suit, though, and I imagine it'll get thrown out soon.

What's hilarious (well, there are many things to laugh at about this lawsuit), is that he thinks his free speech rights are getting violated, yet he names in the suit people who are posting on a blog. How do blog-writers' opinions have anything to do with his inability to fill out paperwork? And isn't writing on a blog protected by the First Amendment? (I'm not a legal expert, but it seems like it's free speech. And having read almost everything on the blog before it was taken down at the end of August and re-started, I don't remember seeing anything that was attacking him. So if I didn't see anything, either it wasn't there, or the owner of the blog, also named in the suit, removed the offensive content. How would removing hateful comments be hateful towards him? Why is the owner named?)

What you may not understand from the article, is that the Derby town clerk says nothing would be notarized when he left. I checked the Connecticut guidelines for notaries, and it seems they have to notarize something with the person there. So this guy being a lawyer should have known the rules about notarization, and the clerk, being a notary, would probably NEVER have gaffed in such a way.

At least Derby might make the national "stupid news" headlines.

People like this should be barred from costing taxpayers and the system time and money. Their property should be repossessed or something. Ridiculous.

I wonder why the article mentions that he's black. That doesn't seem to be pertinent unless the guy is claiming harrassment based on that fact. Unfortunately, the article doesn't clarify this.

You're right, the article doesn't mention it. But his comments on the blog which he is suing are basically paraphrased here:

"Don't you people know you can be sued for racial comments? Why are racist comments being allowed to be posted on this site? No one's is giving that Mel Thompson a fair shake. This is his intern writing."

Now take what's written, switch all sorts of letters around, taking care to omit some, and you'll have what he wrote. The problem is, nothing racist was ever posted that I could tell. And if it was it must have been removed by the blog owner because I never saw anything.

Really amazing stuff. The Derby Board of Alderman tonight at the end of the meeting went into executive session (where no one is allowed except who's invited), I imagine to talk about the lawsuit.

Thompson Press Release

Actual Complaint Filed

Thompson's campaign website

His campaign website, after a brief glance, has been updated.

This just continues to amaze me. It's not like Mel isn't known around town. To think people for some reason hate him when everyone around here grew up with him and knows his family... just amazing.

A federal judge won't hear the case because he thinks it's a state issue. So Mel will have to re-file stuff with the state if he wants to keep this up.

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