Posted on 04/20/2022 6:36:40 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
It looks like the good ole boys in Tennessee don’t want outsiders taking their cake. The state passed a law that prevents outsiders from running for a US House if they haven’t lived in the state for three years.
Tennessee Republicans changed the law which prevented President Trump’s pic for the House in the state from qualifying for office.
A Trump-backed congressional candidate in Tennessee’s primary race was booted from the ballot after the local GOP voted to remove her because she had only just moved to the state.
Morgan Ortagus served as the State Department Spokesperson under former President Donald Trump and is currently a Navy Reserves officer. She was running to represent the district that encompasses Nashville, but is now unlikely to be able to continue her effort.
Trump had endorsed Ortagus in her bid to represent Tennessee’s 5th congressional district.
‘President Donald Trump believes I’m the best person to fight for his America First agenda and Middle Tennessee in Congress, and I’m working hard to ensure that my fellow Tennesseans, including TNGOP SEC members, understand why,’ Ortagus said in a statement on the decision to remove her. ____________________________________
The RINOs in the Republican Party will do anything they can to keep their power. Like the Democrats, they will do anything, including changing rules that fit their agenda or ignoring election laws, like many states with Republican legislatures did in the 2020 Election with President Trump.
This law is unconstitutional. A state may not add qualifications for federal offices that are not found in the Constitution itself. That's pretty settled case law.
Who is the establishment republican left in the race?
Ortagus is a carpet bagger who moved here to run for the seat being vacated by DemocRat Jim Cooper (whose district is being re-districted so that winning for a Rat will be much more difficult). She’s gorgeous and hot, but she isn’t a Tennessean.
We’ve BEEN at war, so this should have been expected.
If more states passed similar laws (10 years’ residency would work) we’d never get Lizard Cheney types.
You are living by the OLD Constitutional idea that anything that isn’t specifically allowed is prohibited. Modern thinking is that anything that isn’t specifically prohibited is allowed (and then only if they feel like it).
And Hillary would have never been allowed to run for the Senate.
I think all of our institutions are broken.
The GOP does not own my vote. They need to earn it, and actions like this make that hard. I’ll vote GOP if I see someone I really like. Lesser of two evils? No. That’s not good enough. I think the elections are all rigged and do not matter, but I would still play the game, if the candidate were a true patriot. Toadies of the establishment must be rejected even if they have an R after their name.
I think all of this will crash and burn no matter what. Perhaps the Second Republic of the United States will do a better job. But I do not expect it be have 50 states.
I live in TN, this was on the radio shows this morning. It really didn’t have anything directly to do with Trump’s pick. Part of the Republican Party rules include being active in the local party and dwelling in-district a certain amount of time, I think three election cycles. That’s the party rules. Courts upheld this as valid as the Republican Party is a private, not a public institution.
The problem is we have open primaries. If the Dems want to run a Dem in the ‘Pubbie primary they can. And Dems can cross over and vote, making the Dem the Republican candidate and possibly representative. Hence the Republican Party rules.
The legislature should make it closed primary by law, not nibble at the edges using the Republican Party rules.
Don’t know how accurate Hoft’s “facts” are. Read a couple of other articles that present this differently. It is not a law but a Republican Party rule/policy and has not just been passed, but has been in effect for decades. True or not, I don’t know. Also, it doesn’t prevent or forbid anyone from running for Congress, but only prevents they running with the backing of the Republican Party of the state. Again, which is true I don’t know. But typical of reporting these days.
The Tennessee three year minimum state law seems to be in conflict with the Constitution imo.
"Article I, Section 2, Clause 2: No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen [emphasis added]."
Corrections, insights welcome.
And speaking of running for elections...
Patriots are reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.
Again, insights welcome.
(Ortagus is a carpet bagger who moved here to run for the seat)
So basically she’s a female version of Dr. Oz?
Does the law protect her from all TN taxes while she can’t run?
Good, run third party and give it to the rat. It really doesn’t matter.
The Tennessee legislature got around that problem by only applying the law to the PRIMARY elections. Ortagus and Starbuck can still run for Congress as independents and write-in candidates, but they can’t qualify to get on the primary ballot.
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/interpretation/article-i/clauses/762
you might want to change not be an inhabitant to be an inhabitant...
The short list of qualifications for serving in the U.S. House was also a step toward a more inclusive democracy. Article I, Section 2 imposed just three qualifications for members of the House. Members must: (1) be at least twenty-five years old, (2) have been a citizen for seven years, and (3) be an inhabitant of the state from which he is selected. That was less stringent than those applicable to state legislators in most states, all but one of which required property ownership. The Supreme Court later held that neither Congress nor the states may add to Article I, Section 2’s list of qualifications. Powell v. McCormack (1969); U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thorton (1995).
“She’s gorgeous and hot, but she isn’t a Tennessean.”
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Yeah, they should be able to find someone locally who would be good. “Hot” is nice, but optional.
It’s become obvious how these political machines work. Find the most conservative states that rarely ever elect Democrats, and put Beltway establishment GOP hacks in office there to undermine the conservative/nationalist movement from within. That’s how you end up with Lizard Cheney in Wyoming, Mitt Romney in Utah, John Thune in South Dakota, Ben Sasse in Nebraska, etc.
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