BREAKING: Appeals court nullifies 2007 mayoral election

The Tribune-Star ^ | November 13, 2008

[DannyTN]

Your right, the damage the Pelosi could do to the democrats party with sufficient exposure would be tremendous.

[mdmathis6]

So what that decision is saying is that if I as an RN work for a non profit community Hospital, but I would like to run for public office...I couldn’t because the hospital recieves federal funds(ie medicare)?

That’s an incredible twisting of the law in book!

[Styria]

Does this mean anyone working for ACORN is ineligible?

[Styria]

It goes by the Constitution, which has addressed this in the Amendments. If a President-elect fails to qualify, the Vice President-elect holds the office until a President shall have qualified.

[AuH2ORepublican]

“Lawsuits filed by Burke contended that Bennett should not have been eligible to run for mayor because he worked as director of operations at the Hamilton Center, a not-for-profit mental health organization that receives federal funding through its Head Start program. The Hatch Act is a federal law that limits the political activity of employees of some not-for-profits that receive federal money.”

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That is one of the dumbest judicial decisions of which I have ever heard. While a violation of the Hatch Act (which I’m not even sure applies to officers of private entities that receive federal funding, since they aren’t the functional equivalent of state officers whose salaries are paid by the federal government) could result in a fine or maybe prison time, it certainly would *not* result in the violator being stripped of the office to which he was duly elected. I can’t see how this travesty won’t be overturned on appeal.

[Impy]

Well jeez.

This underscores the dangers of idiot judges. Which reminds me of another piece of bad news, the rats defeated the Republican Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme court and are now 1 seat shy of a majority.

If told me after a GOP win Terra Haute and the big win in Indianapolis that Obama would win Indiana....I guess local incompetence was the only factor in those races.

[fieldmarshaldj]

With respect to Terre Haute, they've had a high turnover of Mayors, no one recently has managed to win a second term. Bart Peterson was trying to go for a 3rd term in Indy, and that didn't go over well. And the sole reason the False Messiah took Indiana with a threadbare plurality of 49.9% to 49% (he only won a paltry 15 counties), was because Bob Barr cost McCain.

Contrast that with 1964, the last time the Dem won the state, and you can see a pretty clear preference for LBJ, who won 56-44%. Note Goldwater carried Porter County (directly east of Lake County) in '64 and McCain lost it in '08, the only one Goldie beat him out in.

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

I’ll grant Barr probably cost McCain Indiana, but I also think he took the state for granted. I’m looking at populous Allen County in the northeast, home of Fort Wayne, it went for Bush 63%-36%, but only went for McCain 52%-47%. The state really shouldn’t have been close enough for any third party candidate to cost McCain the win (or for that matter, vote fraud).

[fieldmarshaldj]

Barr also cost McCain North Carolina, too. But you're correct that McCain took for granted the state's GOP leanings in a Presidential race. As it was, McCain only increased upon Dubya's performance in all of 4 counties (3 in the Cincinnati Metro Area and 1 in the Louisville Metro Area). The False Messiah improved his performance in the remaining 88.

Contrasting that with OH, which McCain lost by 51-47%, his targeting the state actually improved upon Dubya's performance in a whopping 64 of 88 counties, including Cuyahoga (Cleveland), Summit (Akron) and Montgomery (Dayton). Only the northwest corner, the Columbus & Cleveland areas and an isolated area in the NE went the other way.

[Impy]

Well look at that Ohio, including the rat friendly Mahoning Valley. Those “clinging to guns” people don’t like our new “leader”.

I’m not so sure McC would have won NC and IN with Barr not on the ballot, he’d need like 90% of the Barr votes in both states for a paper thin win right? With the anti-war furor amongst the libertarians and the mental state of people who would waste their vote in a close race, many would not have voted and many would have gone Obama over McCain.

Indiana is the ultimate triumph of Obama’s marketing, he spent there and targeted the state. Like in Omaha we see this makes a difference.

McCain-Feingold’s kneecapping of GOP $$$$ stream was a key factor in his loss. Oh irony. Bush’s fault too cause HE SIGNED IT. What the hell was he thinking.

[calex59]

Now that Obama has assumed the “Office of President-Elect” I don’t think there is anything we can do to remove him. After all, a guy that has the hutspah to creat a constituional office out of thin air and then assume it will do pretty much anything.