Posted on 07/06/2006 9:28:20 AM PDT by AntiGuv
If the 5th Circuit doesn't rule his way & declare him ineligible, he may not have a choice but to run... or else the Dimocrat Lampson might get his seat. I still think the voters in his district would vote for him anyway just to keep the seat Republican. I just think it's a waste of time and money to make DeLay run again, win, and resign, and then make his district have to hold another special election just to keep the seat GOP.
"But his time was up and he has made his exit immeasurably worse by dithering until after the primary and trying to exploit a loophole to violate the spirit of the law. Yes, Lautenberg was worse, but they're both wrong, and that's what the judge found."
Excuse me, but Delay requested a speedy trial for the charges against him to happen in December last year. He not only did not get the trial in December, but the court has postponed, and postponed when the trial would be, such that Delay, finally, resigned his seat. Now the same people that postponed his trial are now demanding that he run, even though, if he wins, he could not be accepted into the US House until the charges against him are taken care of.
Meanwhile he is still waiting for his speedy trail (see the 6th amendment).
It must be that states differ, because this is what's going on in New Mexico:
Santa Fe doctor J. R. Damron, who won the Republican nomination without opposition in the June 6 primary election, officially dropped out of the race in the letter sent to the Secretary of State on Friday. And the man Republicans chose to replace Damron over the weekend quickly—former party chairman John Dendahl--quickly drew rebukes from Democrats.
He is pretty popular there.
The charges against Delay are bogus.
He could win in a walk, in fact, he encouraged the state legislature to modify his district to make it less Republican, because others needed the demographics more than he.
I know the area well.
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