Posted on 04/25/2023 4:46:14 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
The depth of effort to manipulate the American electorate, to continue the Big Club objective & illusion of choice, is remarkable when you stand back and look at the totality of it. It is not surprising when you understand how committed the power centers are; in fact, it’s just another step in a predictable sequence of events. However, for those who cling to disbelief out of their mistaken need to bury acceptance, the reality of the constructs become empirical data points in the awakening.
As predicted, the Florida Senate has introduced a change to the vote and candidate laws in Florida [Bill #7050, Amendment text line #1030 to 1038] specifically constructed so that Ron DeSantis can announce his 2024 presidential candidacy without resigning from office. The language will exempt anyone who is pursuing the office of President or Vice President of the United States from statutory requirements to resign-to-run.
“The amendments made to s. 99.012, Florida Statutes, by this act are intended to clarify existing law,” the new language stipulates.
“Any person seeking the office of President or Vice President of the United States is not subject to the requirements of chapter 99, Florida Statutes, which govern candidate qualifying, specifically those which require the submission of certain documents, full and public disclosures of financial interests, petition signatures, or the payment of filing fees. This section shall take effect upon this act becoming a law.” [Amendment line #1030 to 1038]
The intent of the ‘resign to run’ law, is exactly to address the issue of divided loyalties within the framework of what is happening right now. Ron DeSantis has not been focused on the issues of Florida and has instead been focused on his own personal political and career advancement. Changing the law is how the professional political club within Florida politics is trying to assist the group behind him.
I goofed. Click the link to read more. I forgot to make it an excerpt.
Exactly. And this makes me like him less.
Democrats are known to change the laws when it suits their needs. For example, when Rudy Giuliani was Mayor of New York City, the Democrat-controlled City Council had passed a term limit Bill for the office of Mayor. The new law allowed only two terms. Rudy asked to be able to stay beyond the expiration date of his 2nd term, so he could see the city through the aftermath of 9/11. The Democrat-controlled City Council said: NO!
Michael Bloomberg, who had been a Democrat his whole life became Mayor, running as a Republican in Rudy's footsteps. In 2007, he changed his party affiliation to Independent. He was limited to two terms, but heavily lobbied the City Council to change the law, to allow him to run for a third term. The City Council is largely Democrat. When I say largely, I mean currently it consists of 51 Democrats and 6 Republicans. Once Bloomberg got his third term, he lobbied the Council to return it back to two terms, where it currently stands. In 2018, Bloomberg became a Democrat one more.
So DeSantis is now free to betray the Floridians he promised to serve a full term with and join up with the deep state to take down Trump. He he might not even get reelected governor in Florida after pulling this stunt.
Sleazy politics imho.
The existing law is probably unconstitutional as applied to POTUS, VPOTUS, U.S. Congress (Senate or House) anyway. Due to Federal law being supreme and bucking no interference pursuant to Supreme Court precedent (and logic).
The resign to run law is unconstitutional when applied to Federal office. Rick Scott certainly ran for Senate while governor of FL. This amendment might actually be at Trump’s behest, to embarrass DeSantis, rather than help him, since no legislative change is needed.
Section 99.012 of the Florida Statutes states: “No officer may qualify as a candidate for another public office, whether state, district, county or municipal, if the terms or any part thereof run concurrently with each other, without resigning from the office he or she presently holds.”[3] The Florida law permits an office-holder to make their resignation effective the day they would assume the new office if elected.
In 1970, the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida ruled that Florida’s resign-to-run law could not be applied to candidates running for Congress. The court found that the law violated Article 1, Section 2, Clause 2, of the Constitution by providing an additional qualification not provided by the Constitution for election to Congress.[4] That same year, in a separate case, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black questioned the constitutionality of the same statute.[5]
In late 2022, some Republican leaders of the Legislature, signaled that they might change the law so governor Ron DeSantis could run in the 2024 United States presidential election.[6] [7][8] ]
Even though it is unconstitutional as applied to Federal office, the resign to run law should be repealed in its entirety. If there’s one thing FL politics is known for, it’s sleaze (as embodied in the sweetheart deal for Disney), and the resign to run law is probably a principal factor in that sleaze. It limits the candidates for political office to small-timers who are in it mainly to steal rather than advance up the ladder. That’s why this law was, on its face, a retrograde law on the very first day it was enacted. Politics should be a Darwinian up or out affair.
“The resign to run law is unconstitutional when applied to Federal office. “
I agree. The SCOTUS has ruled again and again that additional requirements (residency etc.) can’t be added to the requirements set out in the constitution.
For president, anyone who meets the following can run:
“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
That’s it. Florida can’t pile on its own special requirements.
Always better to change the law than break the law.
“The existing law is probably unconstitutional as applied to POTUS, VPOTUS, U.S. Congress (Senate or House) anyway. Due to Federal law being supreme and bucking no interference pursuant to Supreme Court precedent (and logic).”
Sort of. The current law forces the person to resign their State position but it does not prohibit their running in a federal election.
1. He is term limited so I would rather think he is nor worried about re-election.
2. Instead is doing what a democrat would do and ignore the law, they are changing the law which seems to be ok with the people of florida. You know. Representative government. That pesky thing.
Thisis his second term he just started. Can he be elected 3 times?
So show us some proof that the law was at Trump’s behest. If you cannot prove that you need to take it back because you would be considered as lying to hurt Trump.
The guy was running around on a shadow campaign trail before he even showed up for work on the first day of his second term in office.
Ron DeSantis is free to run for any Federal office. He just has to resign from any elected state office in Florida first.
Didn’t know he was term limited. If he can’t run again for governor I presume he’ll run for Senator. Whichever the case he’s liable to turn off the Trump voters and they might not remember him fondly after this.
It is a mistake, but it will be his own mistake. People going to do what they please and see what happens.
It won’t be good in the end. JMO
Like him or not. Like polls or not. Don’t care.
He showed his hand…..Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) shrugged off recent polling that showed him losing ground against his top likely 2024 rival, former President Donald Trump.
“I’m not a candidate, so we’ll see if and when that changes,” DeSantis told reporters during a trip in Japan on Monday.
So, if I’m reading this right, when he announces all the polling will flip? Hmmm
I read an interesting article the other day that detailed how DeSantis won in 2018. Apparently there was another Republican candidate that got all the endorsements and was cursing along. Then Pres Trump showed up and totally flipped it. If that’s true, then one could argue that DeSantis could be on his way to slaughter.
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