Posted on 04/20/2022 6:36:40 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
It looks like the good ole boys in Tennessee don’t want outsiders taking their cake. The state passed a law that prevents outsiders from running for a US House if they haven’t lived in the state for three years.
Tennessee Republicans changed the law which prevented President Trump’s pic for the House in the state from qualifying for office.
A Trump-backed congressional candidate in Tennessee’s primary race was booted from the ballot after the local GOP voted to remove her because she had only just moved to the state.
Morgan Ortagus served as the State Department Spokesperson under former President Donald Trump and is currently a Navy Reserves officer. She was running to represent the district that encompasses Nashville, but is now unlikely to be able to continue her effort.
Trump had endorsed Ortagus in her bid to represent Tennessee’s 5th congressional district.
‘President Donald Trump believes I’m the best person to fight for his America First agenda and Middle Tennessee in Congress, and I’m working hard to ensure that my fellow Tennesseans, including TNGOP SEC members, understand why,’ Ortagus said in a statement on the decision to remove her. ____________________________________
The RINOs in the Republican Party will do anything they can to keep their power. Like the Democrats, they will do anything, including changing rules that fit their agenda or ignoring election laws, like many states with Republican legislatures did in the 2020 Election with President Trump.
“The Tennessee legislature got around that problem by only applying the law to the PRIMARY elections. Ortagus and Starbuck can still run for Congress as independents and write-in candidates, but they can’t qualify to get on the primary ballot.”
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Yep, primaries are where political PARTIES select their candidate to run in the general election. Each party can and does have their own rules about qualifications for running to be that party’s candidate. Hate to say it but the disqualified wannabe candidates should have done a better job researching local Republican Party rules/policies.
My problem with the legislature is the 2022 filings have already been made, time and money spent. Thus even if the residency requirement is upheld by the courts the law is ex-post facto. The filings to run have been legally introduced.
To avoid court challenges and party in-fighting I would have made this valid for the 2024 elections, but I am not an elected official (I did get some votes for County Coroner, some friends did a write in campaign as a joke on me, boy was I surprised when I saw the election results on TV).
Yep.
Tennessee only has property taxes and sales taxes. We have no state income tax or estate taxes.
That is the general belief.
Trump won’t like this one bit...
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He actually might like it a lot. Gets him off the hook for a disastrous endorsement. Next time he needs to do a little more research or find better advisors to do it for him.
“She’s gorgeous and hot, “
She’s also a Biden-loving liberal in GOP clothing.
We’ve lived here in TN for 12 years now, and still consider ourselves as newcomers. I wouldn’t consider running for a federal office representing TN because I’m smart enough to know there’s too much I don’t know about the state yet.
It takes an unbelievable amount of arrogance to do what she’s doing. Hillary did it. RFK did it. Oz is doing it. All arrogant jerks.
No the constitution states who can NOT be elected, not who Can.
“”Article I, Section 2, Clause 2: No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen [emphasis added].”
“Ortagus seems like a perfect GOPe mole in Tennessee.”
That’s a perfect way to describe the situation. TN is too conservative and “they” are desperate to fix it by any means necessary, including sabotage.
The poem/song “The Snake” comes to mind. We know what she is.
This is more a problem of Trump’s tendency to endorse women who he thinks are hot for positions and offices.
“She’s gorgeous and hot, but she isn’t a Tennessean.”
OK, I searched her image after you posted that lol
Thank you for pointing that out. Interestingly, first random online reference that I looked at to compare also has same issue.
Wikipedia OK.
The state law requiring 3 year residency doesn’t apply to Ms. Ortago, it was passed after she had filed to run. She was not disqualified due to the state law.
She was disqualified from running in the Republican primary by a vote of the Tennessee GOP Executive Committee. The committee also disqualified two other candidates in addition to Ms. Ortago, due to the fact they hadn’t voted in 3 of the last 4 elections in TN, which is a requirement to run in the GOP Primary. Tennesee state law gives the parties the power to determine who runs in that parties’primary.
Again, nothing to do with the recently passed law about residency.
State legislatures don't have the power to tell political parties who can run in their primaries. It would be unconstitutional.
i was checking out her pictures
she was wearing a Jeb! tshirt
i see a problem
Yep.
This law is struck down the very first time it sees a courthouse for the very reason you describe.
What it will do is allow the outsiders to rightfully campaign that the establishment is out to deny Republican voters a choice.
TN state law gives political parties the right to determine who runs in a party primary.
The GOP gets to decide who runs in the GOP primary, Dems get to decide who runs in the Dem primary.
So can Orgatus run as a Dem and all the decent R’s cross over?
The political parties have the inalienable right to pick who runs in their primaries. The state legislatures can't abridge that right.
The GOP party has their own rules. They are the ones who removed the three candidates from their primary.
A bad decision IMO, but they have every right to make it.
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