Posted on 09/18/2008 6:52:10 AM PDT by andymin
Yesterday, Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr announced that he was filing a lawsuit against the Texas Secretary of State, proclaiming that since John McCain and Barack Obama had both missed the candidacy filing deadline under Texas law 192.031, both were ineligible and both should be knocked off of the ballot. Obviously, in a state with 34 electoral votes (and a state where John McCain leads by 21 points), this is big news. However, there are some inconsistencies in Barr’s case that should be hammered out.
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It’s time for Texas to come to the rescue of the union and split, finally, into the five states it is permitted to divide into, so that Republicans can gain back some measure of control in the Senate.
At one time Bob Barr was a conservative stalwart and a GOP Congressman from Georgia. Somewhere along the way, he has kind of gone off the deep end.
Seriously. I supported him on and off before, but this is a low, underhanded move that puts him right next to Obama (as far as “agents of change” go). He’s no better than Obama. Actually, he’s the same (Obama pulled something like this when running for legislature).
Texas would have to split into 8 states, that way obama would be right to say that he has visited all 57 states....
Sorry, I couldn’t resist
The acronymn you are looking for is ACLU.
Section 181.005:
(b) A political party is entitled to have the names of its nominees placed on the ballot, without qualifying under Subsection (a), in each subsequent general election following a general election in which the party had a nominee for a statewide office who received a number of votes equal to at least five percent of the total number of votes received by all candidates for that office.
Basically, he doesn't like that candidates who have no support, don't have the same privileges as candidates who have a majority support.. IE, if you can't get the support you need under the law, sue your way into it.. Typical ACLU patsy.
Seriously. This is just as bad as any ACLU lawyer.
I used to consider Barr as better than Obama. Now, I see no difference.
I’ll bet Chuck Baldwin’s happy...
He is in bed big time with them. I used to respect him here, but no longer.
What are you guys worried about? Election rules aren’t promulgated for Republicans or Democrats.
Right, like a defacto disenfranchisement in the county’s 2nd most populous state is really going to happen. That would make 2000 look like a ride at the county carnival.
That would not be so easy as it would also need the consent of Congress.
Art 4 Sec 3
New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.
Texas alone was admitted with the specific provisions of the Annexation Resolution in 1845, that it could subdivide into up to five states.
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