O’s team has counsel via conference call .. I know it’s an attorney from Miami .. Rosenbloom? Rothman? You can playback the video.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/209789/
OMG .. I’m just ROFLMBO ... his attorneys are actually seriously stipulating that he’s not the candidate .. yet. They read the doc where he was placed in contention last October (the ONLY one), but he’s not the official candidate for the Dems. That’s their grounds????? OMG ... unreal the depths of minutiae and granularity for which they’re reaching..
Standing, etc., hearing date have to perfectly converge with the exact moment he’s an officially declared candidate??
God bless Judge Lewis with supernatural courage and clarity.
OBama lawyer cited Florida statute 102.168 and sub section 3.
If I’m understanding this correctly, Bob Kerrey filed to be on the Nebraska democratic Senate primary ballot at the very last possible moment (5pm on the last day you can file), and when his eligibility was challenged because he’s not a Nebraska resident, it was thrown out because it was “too late to file a challenge”. You can’t file a challenge until the person is a candidate and whoever is unchallenged at 5pm on the last date of filing automatically goes on the ballot. As long as Bob Kerrey was the last person in line before they closed that office, there was no way to challenge his eligibility.
But I think there should be penalties for saying you’re eligible when you’re really not. Like perjury penalties.
What would make me laugh my guts out would be if the judges said you can only challenge when somebody is the DNC’s final candidate, and then the dems were left without ANY candidate on the ballots all over the country because Obama was thrown out.
It would serve them right. They should be thanking anybody who raises the issue while they still have the opportunity to choose another candidate - maybe inmate #xxxx.