[Darkwolf377]

Jim Bopp, a lawyer for the Republican Party of Texas, disagreed, telling Sparks "there's been no withdrawal." Bopp said that instead, DeLay moved to Virginia, making him ineligible and triggering a state law that allows the party to select a new nominee.

If a Democrat did this we'd be calling it BS, which it is.

We denounced it when Toricelli and the Dems pulled something like this, so I hope we're going to live by our principles and not dance around and make excuses just because someone we like is doing it now.

[Hillsdale Guy]

Torricelli didn't move out of state or anything of the kind; he is still a NJ resident. He simply withdrew. DeLay went to great lengths to make himself ineligible. There is a difference.

If I lived in Virginia, I couldn't run for office in Texas.

[AuH2ORepublican]

I wouldn't have said a word had Torricelli dropped out during the time period in which NJ law allowed candidates to be replaced on the ballot. What made the Torricelli-Lautenberg switch illegal was that it took place quite close to Election Day, after the deadline for replacing a candidate.

[MikeA]

If he's moved, he's moved and thus ineligible. Delay should have pulled out before the primary of course. But I doubt he'd go to the trouble and expense of moving to Virginia if this were just a stunt.

[KC Burke]

I don't think the circumstances are the same. Delay won his primary. Subsiquently he annonced he was leaving the Congress and moved to Virginia. There is a state law specifically written to govern what happens when a candidate is no longer eligible. What's wrong with following the law? Instead the judge is trying to characterize thought and motive and, like in hate crime promotion, penalize for the court's feelings about what DeLay's motives were.

[fedupjohn]

We denounced it when Toricelli and the Dems pulled something like this, so I hope we're going to live by our principles and not dance around and make excuses just because someone we like is doing it now.

lets get the facts straight.... Toricelli withdrew in September, after the legal deadline to replace someone on the ballot.
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