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17-Year-Old Girl Running for Mayor of Minnesota Town
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| 10-4-04
Posted on 10/04/2004 12:41:17 PM PDT by georgiadevildog
Erin Feehan-Nelson, running for mayor of this St. Croix River town, has a campaign slogan that's hard to dispute: "Uncorrupted by years of experience." The reason? She's 17.
....state law says candidates must be eligible voters and at least 21 years old when they take office.
"I doubt the judge would be able to say no to the popular vote," she said. "The people's right to choose prevails over (state law)."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 17yearoldmayor; anarchist; causeimagirl; democracyforfools; electionlaw; minn; themobrules
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"The people's right to choose prevails over (state law)." Umm, no it doesn't.
To: georgiadevildog
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posted on
10/04/2004 12:42:44 PM PDT
by
maestro
To: georgiadevildog
No kidding, but with the screwy judges in today courts I wouldn't make any bets.
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posted on
10/04/2004 12:42:46 PM PDT
by
chalkman
(Three can keep a secret if two are dead)
To: georgiadevildog
"I doubt the judge would be able to say no to the popular vote,"
she's never meet a leftist California judge overturning a conservative voter inititve.
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posted on
10/04/2004 12:43:24 PM PDT
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: georgiadevildog
I doubt the judge would be able to say no to the popular vote," she said. "The people's right to choose prevails over (state law)." Don't bet on that, sweetie.
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posted on
10/04/2004 12:43:45 PM PDT
by
Non-Sequitur
(Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
To: georgiadevildog
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posted on
10/04/2004 12:44:48 PM PDT
by
chalkman
(Three can keep a secret if two are dead)
To: georgiadevildog
To: georgiadevildog
First things first: You have to win the popular vote, then you have to win a case that has about as much chance as O.J. Simpsons should have had.
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posted on
10/04/2004 12:46:04 PM PDT
by
chalkman
(Three can keep a secret if two are dead)
To: georgiadevildog
"Uncorrupted by years of experience." The reason? She's 17. ..... "I doubt the judge would be able to say no to the popular vote," she said. "The people's right to choose prevails over (state law)." And too naive to realize that her opponent will play every dirty trick to overturn this election if he loses.
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posted on
10/04/2004 12:46:57 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Truth, Justice and the Texan Way)
To: georgiadevildog
If a judge can say no to the president and the congress he can say no to you too.
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posted on
10/04/2004 12:47:19 PM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(John Kerry: Better than Ted Kennedy!)
To: flashbunny
must be a dem Erin Feehan-Nelson
I'd say the odds of a hyphenated-American being a 'Rat are pretty good.
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posted on
10/04/2004 12:48:08 PM PDT
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: georgiadevildog
....state law says candidates must be eligible voters and at least 21 years old when they take office. Unless it's in the state constitution and not just state law, she's probably win if the turns 18 before taking office. It's not easy to tell adults they can't do something other adults can - that's the basis of equality under the law.
Can someone explain how the drinking age thing is constitutional?
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posted on
10/04/2004 12:48:21 PM PDT
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
To: georgiadevildog
Feehan-Nelson said that if she receives the highest number of votes but is not certified, she is prepared to take the matter to court. The legacy of Algore keeps on giving.
To: Bogey78O
Took me a second to figure that out, and if I got it right, then by winning she ends up losing...Am i right?
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posted on
10/04/2004 12:48:50 PM PDT
by
chalkman
(Three can keep a secret if two are dead)
To: georgiadevildog
I just really hope she is a dem and doesn't give republicans a bad name.
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posted on
10/04/2004 12:50:23 PM PDT
by
chalkman
(Three can keep a secret if two are dead)
To: georgiadevildog
Wonder if clinton will offer his services to her campain---if she wears a thong under a blue dress and delivers pizza--that would clinch the deal.My advice to the young lady--study your history,and social studies--state legislaters make the laws---we live in a repersenative republic NOT a ture democracy.
To: georgiadevildog
Erin Feehan-Nelson, running for mayor of this St. Croix River town, has a campaign slogan that's hard to dispute: "Uncorrupted by years of experience." The reason? She's 17. ...and unburdened by the wisdom gained by living beyond childhood.
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posted on
10/04/2004 12:55:21 PM PDT
by
Lizavetta
(Jim Lehrer is a baggy-eyed Bolshevik)
To: Hank Rearden
She has to be, with the talk about the rule of law being trumped by mob rule.
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posted on
10/04/2004 12:56:17 PM PDT
by
AQGeiger
(Have you hugged your soldier today?)
To: georgiadevildog
"The people's right to choose prevails over (state law)." Umm, no it doesn't.
The right to choice just keeps getting better and better.
It must be somewhere in the emanations from the penumbra to the Constitution. It's just you hide-bound old fogeys that can't perceive it until it is written down.
It's only a few short steps until they are setting up the guillotines in the public square!
To: Centurion2000
And too naive to realize that her opponent will play every dirty trick to overturn this election if he loses. Yeah, I bet by week two of the campaign, the opponent has her in tears on the local news channel. He'll be talking to her ex-boyfriends before week's end. Bet on it. hehehe
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posted on
10/04/2004 1:06:32 PM PDT
by
georgiadevildog
(Get to work. You aren't being paid to believe in the power of your dreams.)
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