Posted on 05/04/2011 7:18:58 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
This makes the race very unpredictable.
This race will be a key race. Anything can happen and I don’t think we can leave anything to chance.
All welfare kings and queens sees this for the code it really is: tax the working class and give permanent handouts to the welfare class.
This is turning into a zoo. Maybe I’ll take my dog down and have her declare her candidacy for CD2 too.
Please Nevada, don’t run that looney tune Sharron Angle again. She opens her mouth and out comes a disaster!
Please Nevada, don’t run that looney tune Sharron Angle again. She opens her mouth and out comes a disaster!
I have a big problem with making this some sort of all-party free-for-all (especially given the likelihood that none of the candidates would get 50% under such a scenario, and there is no runoff). It’s deliberately designed to elect a Dem (Marshall) with a bare plurality in a district they couldn’t win under normal circumstances. If I were the NV GOP, I’d sue to have this run as a primary + general. This is a willful disenfranchisement of the majority of voters.
Are they going with that? That sucks. Rat Sec of State or AG got to decide? Not cool.
There needs to be 1 Republican who is not Angle. If they choose someone else and she gets in anyway........
Article says other rats are running too. Watch Harry Reid put their heads in vises to get them to quit.
My reading of the law was that the state committees made nominations for partisan offices in special elections, and that the free-for-all part of the law applied to only nonpartisan offices.
The state committee should still make an endorsement though. I suppose it would be impractical to get the case heard in a reasonable time.
Well, the SoS is apparently trying to treat this as a non-partisan office. I’d try to get a judge to order an injunction and order the parties involved to put up a single nominee from each, since this is clearly a partisan office. As was pointed out recently, there is no precedence for a U.S. House special election in NV history, but that’s no excuse to try to pull off an undemocratic farce such as this. Even in Louisiana, which was infamous for its “jungle primaries”, it still required the top-two vote-getters to compete in a runoff if neither got above 50%. With this current scenario in NV, you could have Marshall win with, say, 25%, while another 15% went to other Dem candidates and the remaining 60% went to the combined GOP candidates (all getting from the teens to low 20s).
If they fail to rectify this they need to have a come to Jesus meeting with all the Republicans. Anyone who doesn’t play ball gets blackballed for life.
They need to get behind Krolicki.
You make a good point. Of course, with prior nominee Jill Derby running, the ‘Rat vote will be divided too.
“Watch Harry Reid put their heads in vises...”
It’s the Las Vegas way. Just ask Senator Harrison Roberts (the name of the Reid character in ‘Casino’).
I agree, Governor Sandoval should order that each party designate a single nominee, as is the case for other partisan elections in the state. That’s how special elections for state legislative seats are run, right?
But having everyone and his brother run and whoever gets the most votes wins (without a run-off) is not unprecedented in U.S. House special elections: that’s how Hawaii runs special elections (at least for the U.S. House), which is why Charles Djou was able to get elected to Congress despite only getting 39.4% (while Democrats Case and Hanabusa split 58% and the other 11 candidates split the rest).
Too late. She is the perpetual candidate. She’s going to run, run and run until she either wins something or is committed. *oh - was that my outside voice?*
So there is Nevada precedent? The Dems claimed the law was unclear. However, if other partisan special elections in that state have been conducted that way, and the law remained unamended, it is a much harder case to make that the law is unclear.
But getting the case heard is another story.
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