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.
“Deadlines are for Republicans only.”
PJT, you just had to bring up that judicial travesty didn’t you! Oh well, at least the Lautencorpse finally became his namesake.
The fix was already in.
The fix was already in. If it was not,”he missed the deadline”, it would have been something else.
Just today I gets me an email from McDaniel or someone claiming to represent him shaking a tin cup.
Like I’ve said before, the better Senator would be McDaniel, but damn if the guy doesn’t seem a bit touched to not first understand how dirty MS politics could be and prep for a dirty runoff and now we learn he didn’t know about some established 20 day appeal rule.
This whole Mississippi thing is sort of getting a bit smelly like a rat (any pun intended).
What color is the sky in your world? Really! Cochran should have shown some class and not smeared the Conservative base as "racists", all the while shoveling out "walkin' around money" to LIVs to to illegally vote for the RINO after he lost the first primary.
The problem with RINOs are that they are hopeless hypocrites. There is no reason - none at all - for a Conservate so smeared by the Rove/Romney machine to ever vote GOPe again. The GOPe= Whig Party. It's dead Jim. Get over it. The RINOs just destroyed any chance of taking the Senate. Stupid, stupid RINOS. I piss on your grave.
He was being obstructed at every turn, and was forced to follow the proper legal channels at each and every step in order to have a bullet-proof case to counter the Barbour machine in Mississippi.
The key Cochran counties delayed in making the voting records available to McDaniel, forcing McDaniel to go to the courts and face the inevitable rejections by the machine, so he could appeal.
He was forced to go through the Mississippi Republican Party appeal process, knowing that they would reject it out of hand, but he had to follow the proper procedure.
He had to wait for the certification process, which took every opportunity to delay to the last possible moment.
The GOP played rope-a-dope with McDaniel with the express purpose to run out the clock.
All of this forced McDaniel to build up the strongest case possible before filing his case, knowing that the Barbour machine would dismiss it no matter what.
-PJ
Ms meAN OLE underbelly ping
Yes, they decided within one day.
“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.”
Not with what was done, it’s time someone took the lead against these tactics. I worked hard to get Voter ID in Mississippi and the goal was to have honest elections, not to just make it more difficult for democrats to steal elections. I didn’t believe that I had to worry about Republicans but cochran/barbour group is at least as corrupt as the democrats. This primary was stolen and I’ll NOT help or aid those who stole it.
>> Sorry, folks this guy is a complete idiot. <<
Well, I wouldn’t say “complete” — but on the other hand, he doesn’t seem too smart.
I was in the courtroom at the hearing today in Gulfport MS when this decision was announced. The judge rambled on and on about old “precedent” before announcing that he is a charter member of the Good Ol’ Boy Club and he knows he must play ball with the Barbour-Cochran machine—well he didn’t put it that way exactly. Yet where is the hard law that there is a 20-day limit? Oh, it’s “precedent,” I forgot. We are so screwed.
Ok, thanks. Then it is mishandled by McDaniel’s team.
Can’t believe they don’t know the deadline.
They had to fight for every county to turn over their information, and you think it would be possible to meet the deadline? It was made to be nearly impossible.
did u know what forum u was on before you posted such dumasstic remarks? now you will forever be nikos the rino casted into the dark shadows of FReeper beat downs! i would suggest you find a new site to troll! one that sympathizes with the gopE machine steam rolling over their base!
Mike
Anyone who fails to step up against the Democrat-like voter fraud of the GOP Establishment is the idiot.
I hate to say it, but this is really outside the bounds of the courts. If the state Republican Party chooses to be corrupt, that is completely up to them. The Party alone gets to choose its candidates, and the Party has chosen Cochran. The only way to change this is to change the Party.
Thanks you for the report Gina. And thanks, WKB, for the ping. Another sad morning for the state of affairs here in Mississippi.
Yes, it’s disgustingly sad.
AMEN, Laz!
You used an awful lot of words to say you support election fraud.
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