# Fitch v. Republican Party: Someone's suing the GOP for being a bad political party **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 26, 2013, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitch-v-republican-party-someones-suing-the-gop-for-being-a-bad-political-party/667186 "2013-08-26T06:08:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitch-v-republican-party-someones-suing-the-gop-for-being-a-bad-political-party/667186/1 "2013-08-26T06:08:44Z")
[Here’s a link to the court filing on Scribd](http://www.scribd.com/doc/162643632/Fitch-v-Republican-Party-of-the-USA-Does-1-350-19-Aug-2013-COMPLAINT-for-Professional-Negligence-Breach-of-Fiduciary-Duty-And-Breach-of-Contract), and [a direct link to the PDF](http://volokh.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/FitchvRepublicanParty.pdf) via [The Volokh Conspiracy](http://www.volokh.com/2013/08/22/disgruntled-republican-sues-republican-party-political-malpractice/). It’s _Fitch v. Republican Party_ (Cal. Super. Ct. filed Aug. 19, 2013) and Fitch is alleging: > [@Eugene Volokh](#): > > “Professional Negligence” consisting of the breach of the “legal duty of care, to take care of their constituents with job market protection” and the breach of a “duty to make sure the Republican corporate members are well taken care of with plentiful job markets, security from criminals, [and] lots of ability to home and nest for their lineages.” Also, from the filing: > [@](#): > > 1. The Republican Party has received over 3,000 emails from me and over 10 years’ worth of phone calls, directives, orders and requests. The Republican Party has never professional contacted me with regards to anything I have said to them. One of this loon’s proposed remedies is a doozy: > [@](#): > > 1. I Pray the Republican Party to settle with me out of court for $90 million and then meet me at an airport. So I can fly to Germany to prepare to return and be more active in the Republican Party. Where I have plans to learn how to speak German as I believe 80 million Republican US citizens speak German in the USA. While also learn to be the world’s most powerful economic warfare director for the world rightist parties. I also need a trainer to teach me LSAT, German language, etiquette, cooking, and proper republican right wing authority, and stocks and bonds. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitch-v-republican-party-someones-suing-the-gop-for-being-a-bad-political-party/667186/2 "2013-08-26T06:35:59Z")
Eh, as a couple posters in the Voloch thread point out, the guys almost certainly severely mentally ill. “Lets point and laugh at the Schizophrenic” seems like kind of grim entertainment, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitch-v-republican-party-someones-suing-the-gop-for-being-a-bad-political-party/667186/3 "2013-08-26T07:24:22Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Eh, as a couple posters in the Voloch thread point out, the guys almost certainly severely mentally ill. IANAL, but I think “standing to sue” is a relevant legal notion. That the guy is a mentally ill voter should give him good standing to sue the GOP. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitch-v-republican-party-someones-suing-the-gop-for-being-a-bad-political-party/667186/4 "2013-08-26T11:13:19Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Eh, as a couple posters in the Voloch thread point out, the guys almost certainly severely mentally ill. “Lets point and laugh at the Schizophrenic” seems like kind of grim entertainment, IMHO. Whenever I hear this, I remember that nobody has a problem with laughing at the stupid as long as they don’t visibly have Down’s Syndrome or fetal alcohol or something. We also don’t have problems laughing at the narcissists or sociopaths (antisocial behavior disorder), even though those are just as diagnosable as schizophrenia. So where’s the line? Can we laugh at some things people can’t help but not others? ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitch-v-republican-party-someones-suing-the-gop-for-being-a-bad-political-party/667186/5 "2013-08-26T15:36:01Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Whenever I hear this, I remember that nobody has a problem with laughing at the stupid as long as they don’t visibly have Down’s Syndrome or fetal alcohol or something. We also don’t have problems laughing at the narcissists or sociopaths (antisocial behavior disorder), even though those are just as diagnosable as schizophrenia. So where’s the line? Can we laugh at some things people can’t help but not others? You can laugh at what you want. I just don’t really see the funny. “ha ha, the guys brain is broken and he can’t tell reality from his own paranoid delusions” just seems tragic to me. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitch-v-republican-party-someones-suing-the-gop-for-being-a-bad-political-party/667186/6 "2013-08-26T16:36:49Z")
While I can’t agree with the guy’s proposed remedies, I seems perfectly reasonable to me to sue the GOP for being evil or inept or both in failing to act for the benefit of the American public. This probably means I would be a very bad lawyer. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitch-v-republican-party-someones-suing-the-gop-for-being-a-bad-political-party/667186/7 "2013-08-26T17:31:07Z")
Geeze, if the GOP is losing the crazy vote, they really are doomed, aren’t they? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitch-v-republican-party-someones-suing-the-gop-for-being-a-bad-political-party/667186/8 "2013-08-26T18:12:03Z")
What does “lots of ability to home and nest for their lineages” even mean? It sounds like it was written by an activist pidgeon. I’m pretty sure no other party is supplying it, whatever it is. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitch-v-republican-party-someones-suing-the-gop-for-being-a-bad-political-party/667186/9 "2013-08-26T19:12:43Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Eh, as a couple posters in the Voloch thread point out, the guys almost certainly severely mentally ill. So are the Republicans. Perfect fit, really. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitch-v-republican-party-someones-suing-the-gop-for-being-a-bad-political-party/667186/10 "2013-08-26T19:22:58Z")
I read portions of the complaint and the fellow does seem to have severe mental problems. But the thread title says he is a Republican, so I am being redundant.