TX: Democrats Fight to Keep Greens Off Ballot, Fear Political Competition

From the Austin Statesman:

Democrats will try today to block the Green Party from fielding candidates for governor and other statewide offices this November. The Greens appeared to qualify for this year's statewide ballot by submitting 92,000 petition signatures to the secretary of state's office in May. But the Texas Democratic Party will try to persuade a state district judge in Austin to block the Greens from the ballot because, Democrats claim, an outside group illegally paid for the gathering of those signatures.