So if worse comes to worse we can nominate him for state judge for some seat in the Bronx we aren't gonna win anyway (didn't someone use that trick to quit?)? This could one instance where the total absurdity of NY having a separate later primary for state offices works in our favor. The new nominee wouldn't have much time before November though.
Another option is run someone as an indie, deadline for them isn't until August.
I'm flashing back to Tom Delay's seat, Sekula-Gibbs as a write in for the GE, ugh.
And Florida, leaving Tom Foley's name on the ballot but letting the votes count for Negron, that was just bizarre.
Our best shot to get him out of there would be to run a write-in against him in the primary.
In 2010, when the Conservative Party gave the gubernatorial nomination Rick Lazio, who then lost the Republican primary to Carl Paladino, Lazio asked to be nominated for a judgship in the Bronx (an unwinnable race for a Republican), which ipso facto removed him from the gubernatorial ballot and permitted the Conservative Party to nominate Paladino for governor. But, thinking it over, I don’t think such trick would work for a congressional election, given that a state constitutional provision that disqualifies judicial candidates from simultaneously being candidates for political office (which I assume is the reason why Lazio could be replaced on the gubernatorial ballot) would be unconstitutional to the extent that it purported to disqualify a candidate fir Congress; the U.S. Constitution is the sole source of the qualifications for the offices of U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator (see Powell v. McCormack and the U.S. Term Limits case), so NY couldn’t ban a judicial candidate from running for Congress (although it could ban a congressional candidate from running for a state judgeship). And I’m not even sure that having Grimm move o NJ would allow the GOP to replace him on the congressional ballot, since moving to the DC area and signing an affidavit that he no longer was a resident of TX didn’t work for Tom DeLay when he tried to allow the GOP to replace him on the ballot (I think that the TX judge reasoned that since the U.S. Constitution merely required that a Representative have been an inhabitant of the state he represents *on the say in which he was elected* that, in theory, DeLay could move back to TX on election day, so his leaving TX did not per se disqualify him from the office.
Commenter Caliginous, who called for fellow Republicans to elect Grimm’s Democratic challenger, Domenic Recchia, Jr. in November and then vote in Republicans Nicole Malliotakis or Joseph Borelli in 2016, was similarly disappointed by Grimm’s conservative chops.
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/04/grimm_retains_support_among_ad.html