Posted on 08/22/2014 9:37:31 PM PDT by Din Maker
On the final day of qualifying, another Republican candidate for U.S. Senate signed on the dotted line and qualified for the race.
Republican candidate and retired Air Force Colonel Rob Maness qualified at the Secretary of State's Office just before 11 a.m. on Friday.
A crowd of supporters gathered at the office to cheer Maness on as he qualified.
Maness told KTVE/KARD he will be a candidate who upholds the Constitution in office.
He promises to protect local veterans by fighting to dismantle the Department of Veterans Affairs and absorbing it into the Department of Defense, abolishing the VA medical system and giving veterans a medical identification card that can be given to multiple care providers.
Maness said he will fight Common Core, fight to dismantle the Department of Education and distribute that funding in block grants to states so they can make their own decisions on education.
On Friday, Maness also challenged the candidacy of one of his opponents, Democratic Incumbent Senator Mary Landrieu.
The Maness campaign presented a letter to the Secretary of State's Office challenging Landrieu's residency, claiming she doesn't currently live in Louisiana but in Washington, D.C. and by state law can't run for reelection.
Officials with the Secretary of State's Office told KTVE/KARD their office is not the proper venue to submit such a claim.
According to Louisiana Election Code Revised Statutes Subpart D, Section 491: "A registered voter may present evidence that a candidate has illegally qualified for elective office. The evidence may be presented to the respective parish district attorney, who shall determine whether or not the evidence presented establishes grounds for objecting to such candidacy and if the district attorney makes such a determination he shall file an action objecting to candidacy within the time limitation provided in R.S. 18:493."
Election officials also said Maness could file an Objection to Candidacy himself.
On Friday, the Maness campaign could not confirm if or when anything further would be filed.
Let me add to my Post of a few minutes ago. Yes, the “Jungle Primary” in LA is on Election Day, Nov. 4. I know it’s crazy but all those Cajuns were drunk the day they instituted that. States control how they do their elections, and that’s how they chose to do it. And.... all candidates are on that one Primary ballot regardless of Party. So, if no one gets 50% of the vote and two Pubbies or two DemocRATS are the top vote getters, they are in the run-off.
Only in Louisiana......
Oh goody, then that must mean Mannes will win. Just like the tea party candidate in Alaska, who just lost his chance for the second. Sarah needs to stay home and help her Alaskan folks. I live in Louisiana. Cassidy is popular here and has a better chance of beating Landreau than Mannes. I contributed to Palin in the her election bid when she was running with McCain. She is less than helpful in these state elections, when we so desperately need to regain the senate.
“I really don’t know where you’re coming from with that question. Are you saying that you don’t like what he says he will do or what?”
Not at all!
As you can see, Cassidy is far from being the conservative he claims to be. Can't really score Maness, as he doesn't have a voting record. But he was interviewed by some popular radio DJs in Louisiana that do compare Maness to a cross between Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. So if he was scored, it'll be in the 90's.
I voted in Louisiana for many years. Without the jungle primary, I would have never been able to vote, except for Presidential elections. The Republican party could hold their conventions in the Baton Rouge Dunkin’ Donut and the top two vote getters were always Democrats. The primary was the general election.
Cassidy was first elected to the Louisiana State Senate in 2006 as a Republican. Well before entering politics, he had been a Democrat. He supported Michael Dukakis for President in 1988 and donated money to the 1992 presidential campaign of Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas.[8][9] He also donated to Louisiana Democrats Kathleen Blanco for the 2003 gubernatorial election and Mary Landrieu for her 2002 Senate campaign. In 2013, Cassidy stated that he made the donation to Landrieu before she moved to the left and said that she "got elected and fell into partisan politics... Louisiana hasn't left Mary, Mary has left us."
So the quote "Louisiana hasn't left Mary, Mary has left us." kind of tell me that Cassidy is still a democrat.
Thanks very much for the explanation.
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