Posted on 08/29/2014 1:08:00 PM PDT by thetallguy24
A Mississippi judge on Friday dismissed Tea Party-backed Senate candidate Chris McDaniel's lawsuit, in which McDaniel has been attempting to overturn his narrow defeat in the Republican primary against incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran — on the grounds that McDaniel missed the deadline to even file his challenge.
Judge Hollis McGehee agreed with the Cochran campaign's contention that under a 1959 state Supreme Court ruling, there is a 20-day deadline to file an election challenge. By contrast, McDaniel filed his challenge 41 days after after the June 24 Republican primary runoff, which Cochran won by about 7,000 votes.
McDaniel's lawyer told the Jackson Clarion-Ledger that McDaniel wants to decide over the weekend whether he will appeal McGehee's ruling up to the state Supreme Court; McDaniel will announce his decision on Tuesday.
McDaniel previously requested that the state Republican Party executive committee simply declare him the winner by about 25,000 votes, which the state GOP chairman declined to grant. McDaniel has been defiantly seeking to overturn the primary result, ever since the election night. Among other things, he has charged that Cochran's campaign strategy — which involved reaching out to the (usually Democratic) African-American community to cross over into the Republican primary — had fraudulently overturned the will of genuine Republican voters.
Idiot.
If he missed the deadline,
there is no Appeal that can win.
Why didn’t his attorneys know about this ruling?
Idiot?
No. ‘Victim’.
Embrace the new America.
This local Judge actually followed a law.
His days are numbered.. As are ours.
The Rats win again.
Well that was stupid. I guess its time to coronate Thad.
Nothing like headwind.
Let’s see if he takes this any further. I hope so.
So I guess all the precincts which impeded his investigation by not opening the books succeeded.
No matter what day he filed it, it would have missed the deadline.../s
McDaniels won more republican votes than Cochran.
In MS, the democrat challenger cannot possibly be competetive.
I’d say that McDaniels should go the write-in campaign route. His chances of winning are excellent.
Sorry, folks this guy is a complete idiot. He should have conceded gracefully and shown some class. Everyone, would have considered him the better man. Cochran can’t run forever. Instead he acts like a cry baby.
Write-ins are not allowed in MS.
Choices are Cochran, Childers, or leave that race blank.
We’ll be doing the last one.
My condolences to Mississippi pubbies and conservatives - you’ve just been told that you are irrelevant.
Nonsense!
Oh, okay, you go run against the republican machine and then report back in. He hasn’t had a fair chance from the beginning. The Gop-e stole that seat. And, we are suppose to respect that type of misconduct.
“Forget Mississippi.”
After it rejected McDaniel's claim, then McDaniel filed lawsuit, “conveniently” missing the deadline.
How ironic.////not
“Mississippi’s representatives will be decided by Karl Rove and if you disagree, you can shut up!”
- Establishment
“This local Judge actually followed a law.”
But this should be a federal issue should it not!
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