Posted on 12/09/2013 8:21:16 PM PST by SoConPubbie
There’d be no need for a special election. Unless White is resigning early, he’d serve until the expiration of his term, which would coincide with the start of the next Congress (Jan 2015).
Excellent.
This article which is apprently from a hostile liberal site says this Section 172.054 of the Texas Election Code required this action.
Sec. 172.054. EXTENDED FILING DEADLINE. (a) The deadline for filing an application for a place on the general primary election ballot is extended as provided by this section if a candidate who has made an application that complies with the applicable requirements:
(2) holds the office for which the application was made and withdraws or is declared ineligible on or after the date of the regular filing deadline and on or before the 79th day before general primary election day; or...
(c) An extension of the filing deadline under this section applies only to the primary election of the political party for which the withdrawn, deceased, or ineligible candidate applied for a place on the ballot.
The article seems to imply that GOP wouldn’t have wanted to extend the deadline, I can’t imagine why. I assume they are just engaging in Republican bashing.
It’s obvious why the GOP didn’t want to extend the filing deadline: the party is deathly afraid of former Congressman Jim Turner making a comeback and reclaiming the district for the Democrats. /s/
Don’t forget Vernon Parker running to unseat Kyrszten Sinema in Arizona.
LOL, it’s funny how he would have no chance now, probably even if he had his old district lines.
Presumably, they would reopen the filing for both parties.
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84th Legislature doesn’t meet until Jan. 2015 so my guess
is there would be a special election at some point.
Why go through the expense of a special primary and a special general if they just can open up filing for another week and have the primary and general on the same dates as in every other district?
Do’h! How could I forget Vernon Parker? I’ve been supporting him for Congress since 2010 (when he lost to Dan Quayle’s son in the primary).
Unfortunately, turns out White cannot run in this primary because he already registered to run for state rep. seat. Not sure why, but they wrote in that people cannot switch. :(
Byron Donalds is another one to watch. He lost to Trey Radel in a surprising primary in Florida. Now with Trey exposed as a scumbag, even if he continues to seek reelection, Byron is likely to run.
What a retarded rule. So White had to withdraw from his House district race prior to the closing of the filing deadline? But he didn’t even know that Stockman would drop out at the last minute—Stockman only told one or two candidates (whom I will assume are Paulbots until proven otherwise).
As for Byron Donalds, yeah, I thought of him when I found out that Radel is a cokehead. I can’t believe that Tadel hasn’t resigned yet; SW Floridians deserve to have a congressman who won’t lie to them and who isn’t in drug rehab. Donalds by no means would have an easy path to the nomination for a special election or for Nov. 2014—heck, Connie Mack might try to reclaim his old seat—but he’d have a fighting chance.
Mack is a loser. He phoned it in against senator Nelson. Disappointment. Radel should resign, but I think Bonehead is backing him.
I think it is too late for him to withdraw.
I did not know of this provision of the Texas Election Code.
James White has been an excellent State Rep. If he runs I’ll support him 100%...but he’ll b hard to replace in his current office.
I think what this statute is intended to do is prevent a current office holder to withdraw and set up on of his buddies to get a clear path to an election win by misleading other viable candidates into not running.
For all his positives, Stockman is pretty sleazy.
I think that is a misconstruction of the law. I think it means that if White were to file for Congress, he would also have to withdraw from is state office race.
I hope you’re right and that’s all it means.
I’m sure he will be hard to replace as state rep, but think of how much more important it is to have a great U.S. Representative.
BTW, your sentiment is the reasilon why I don’t support term limits: if residents of a district happen to find someone honest and principled who represents them adequately, and such person agrees to continue to represent them, why should they be prohibited from reelecting him?
Being in Mississippi, I do not know anything about him but please enlighten me before I invest in him. Thanks.
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Are you familiar with him? I bet he doesn't weigh 140 lbs.
Ironically, if elected he would represent the home of James Byrd, Jr., of hate crime fame...and elected by white people.
I don’t know him personally, but I know of him. (And, yes, the fact that he’s black and from Jasper made his election to the state house more noteworthy to the media.)
I hope he runs; we need a greater number of black conservatives in Congress so as to remove the stigma that young blacks feel regarding their conservative instincts so that they can “comoe out of the closet” and start voting Republican. All we need to forge a national supermajority is 25% of the black vote; if Democrats only get 75% of the black vote, they won’t be able to win more than maybe 40 Senate seats and 150 House seats.
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