Despite 'sore loser' law, Don Blankenship trying third party bid for US Senate in West Virginia

ABC News ^ | July 24, 2018 | John Verhovek

[Sam_Damon]

Don Blankenship, the former coal baron who spent time in federal prison and finished third in the West Virginia Republican primary in May, is wading back into the state's U.S. Senate race, this time attempting filing paperwork to run as a member of the Constitution Party.

Blakenship tweeted photos of himself filing the paperwork on Tuesday, saying in part, "I am the only candidate who cannot be bought by out of state billionaires and I will work hard to drain the swamp."

[Buckeye McFrog]

I think the legal point is that he lost the nomination of one party and then tried to enter the general election as the candidate of another.

Since the Constitution does not acknowledge that parties even exist, I think a legal case would be problematic.

[centurion316]

I don’t think that this is a Constitutional issue. The States are given the authority to conduct elections. As long as they are not violating the civil rights of the voters, I think that the Constitution and the Courts should and will stay out of the way (at least the current Court).

[Impy]

///////In a statement posted on Facebook, Blankenship conceded that he does not expect the filing to be certified due to West Virginia's "sore loser" law that prohibits candidates that lost in a primary to run in the general election, but that he believes his name will be on the ballot in November.///////

WTH? That's like saying, "I don't expect to sleep with Scarlett Johansson but I believe I will be the father of her child".

The law is clear, this *ickwad should be barred from the ballot.