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Posted on 10/01/2002 6:03:54 PM PDT by eddie willers
If Torch resigns, and McGreevey appoints Lautenberg, fine, he can serve out the rest of the term. And he can be a write in candidate. But he missed his chance to have his name on the ballot, per whatever NJ election laws cover doing that.
Dave Kopel's article on National Review Online seems pretty clear to me on this. Where is the catch, other than a blatant endrun by the NJSC?
Now, if Torricelli were alive but incapacitated, say in Patsy Mink's situation, I'm not sure what would be the lawful decision. That would mean some interpretation of the law, I think.
But we're not there.....yet.
Then we could sit back and watch THEM take it to the Supreme Court!
Careful, Dog, you might hurt your back stooping down that low to get to his head.
I disagree. They are desperate and have no more idea of how the court will rule than you and I do. They only know one thing: Torricelli is going to lose. That's one of the greatest sins of a Democrat. Almost everything else can fall (well maybe not abortion) to the desire for power. Faced with certain loss, they panicked and instituted this scheme.
Look at how many candidates they had to go through before getting Lautenberg to agree. Does that sound like a party that knows what it's doing? Any why have Torricelli give the Saturday radio address when they were going to dump him two days later. Why not give that address to a candidate who was actually going to run for something?
Nope this is the Hail Mary pass from a party that has run out of options.
This raises an interesting possibility. Why not bend the rules just a bit more to both replace Torricelli's name AND add about 100 more names on the ballot. After all, we must give the voters choice and I can't see why Lautenberg deserves any more right to be on the ballot than any other NJ resident. By the way, I'm not a NJ resident, but PUT ME ON THE BALLOT because residency is probably one of those little rules that's needs to be bent like all the others.
You mean to tell me this is the clown they've chosen? He's tripping all over his tongue, it's almost as though someone is in back of him giving him the DEMO mantra of pollution,yada yada yada...I was waiting for someone to kick him in the arse and say "don't forget to talk about the children dummy!"
I almost feel sorry for the dude. Between this fiasco and the 2 traitors in Baghdad, it's hard to believe anyone would vote for this party of ill repute.
You are on the NJSC, and are fair minded. How do you rule?
By the way, if you think the Dems haven't thought about this line of argument, then you must think they are as stupid as plywood. They don't get their advice from brain dead talking heads on the tube. They get their advice from lawyers from Harvard law school that charge $400 an hour in D.C. And I am just a beat up old provincial lawyer in the boonies and I thought of it rather quickly.
I don't think Forrester will have any problem beating Lautenberg, he voted against the resolution of force against Iraq in 1991 and is as liberal as they come.
Tell ya what, Howlin! I AM impressed with the lawless, ruthless, irresponsible, and single minded raw ambition demonstrated by the dims over and again! They are truly amazing. And the fact that they get away with this act so often is even more amazing. This doesn't say as much for them as it does for conservatives and the Republican Party who allow this abuse of our constitutional republic to continue. It is as though the parents are asleep in the house and the adolescents are running amok. Mature folks had better wake up and get this thing under control. See ya around!
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