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SHould McCain resign from Senate?
Arizona statutes ^ | unk | Arizona legislature

Posted on 02/06/2008 5:12:11 PM PST by Redmen4ever

Title 16. Article 3.

222.C. For a vacancy in the office of United States senator, the governor shall appoint a person to fill the vacancy. That appointee shall be of the same political party as the person vacating the office and shall serve until the person elected at the next general election is qualified and assumes office.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 110th; az2008; mccain; resign; senate
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To: Redmen4ever
Given his stance on Amnesty and the border, he should give up his citizenship.
21 posted on 02/06/2008 5:28:45 PM PST by elizabetty (Mike Huckabee for President of the Confederate States of America -- Bad for the UNION)
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To: Secret Agent Man; Clintonfatigued; AuH2ORepublican; Kuksool; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief; JohnnyZ; ..

See, that’s what I’m wondering here. Appointment laws vary from state to state. In WY, the Democrat Governor was compelled to appoint a Republican (who has turned out to be quite good, and will not be challenged by the party) to Craig Thomas’s Senate seat. Some Governors (such as in OR, IIRC) don’t have the right to appoint at all and must call for a special election.

I was expecting Napolitano to appoint McCain’s friend and RINO-turned-rodent ex-AG Grant Woods to the vacancy.


22 posted on 02/06/2008 5:31:54 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: fieldmarshaldj; SandRat; Borax Queen

I don’t know the appointment laws in Arizona. Perhaps a Freeper from there does.


23 posted on 02/06/2008 5:33:47 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Apparently some folks have never heard of Lincoln Chafee.

Or Olympia Snowe.

(Feel free to add to this list)

24 posted on 02/06/2008 5:35:08 PM PST by Graybeard58 ( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Oops. The statute says it clearly: must be from the same political party as the incumbent. Nappy will find the weakest RINO possible.


25 posted on 02/06/2008 5:35:33 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: Redmen4ever

YES! Do a Bob Dole, Johnny!


26 posted on 02/06/2008 5:36:17 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Redmen4ever

Yhey all should resign, they almost forced Dole to do it when he ran.
Poor Harry can’t run a vote because they aren’t there to back him.


27 posted on 02/06/2008 5:37:57 PM PST by westmichman ( God said: "They cry 'peace! peace!' but there is no peace. Jeremiah 6:14)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
I’m thinking she’d put up as weak and as liberal a RINO as one could imagine.

As a replacement for McCain? Who???

28 posted on 02/06/2008 5:38:18 PM PST by null and void (President Hillary!™ Clinton? Time to invest in body bags. Again...)
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To: Redmen4ever

I believe he is running to throw the election to Hillary.

Think West Virginia on a massive scale.

A dirty deal made to enable the rats.

It fits.


29 posted on 02/06/2008 5:38:30 PM PST by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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To: Redmen4ever

“That appointee shall be of the same political party as the person vacating the office...”

Looks like the appointee would have to be a Democrat.


30 posted on 02/06/2008 5:38:30 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: null and void

Maybe Shamnesty Jeff Flake.


31 posted on 02/06/2008 5:39:26 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: Redmen4ever

McCain is not going win and he is not going to resign.


32 posted on 02/06/2008 5:40:44 PM PST by Eva (Benedict Arnold was a war hero, too.)
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To: Redmen4ever

yes and so should Lieberman. What business does the Senator from CT have stumping in California during legislative session. Does CT get to pay his bill for the travel out there?

The time for term limits is now.


33 posted on 02/06/2008 5:42:43 PM PST by bluedressman
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To: Rummyfan

I agree, it’s a moot question. McCain is neither going to win or resign.


34 posted on 02/06/2008 5:42:43 PM PST by Eva (Benedict Arnold was a war hero, too.)
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To: Redmen4ever

All the Senators should resign. Now is good.


35 posted on 02/06/2008 5:44:00 PM PST by madison10 (Benedict Arnold was a war hero, too.)
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To: Redmen4ever

I think all office holders (Senators, Congressmen, Governors) should have to resign their seats if they seek the presidency ... if they’re in the contest in the year of the presidential election, they should choose which path to chooes and not have it both ways. Another thing to admire Dole for doing.


36 posted on 02/06/2008 5:45:15 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Redmen4ever

He should have resigned the day his corrupt dealings with Charles Keating were exposed.


37 posted on 02/06/2008 5:45:32 PM PST by SUSSA
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To: All

Yes! And again, Yes, yes yes! He should resign. That might be the only way we will ever get rid of the old, Democrat gasbag. He doesn’t have a chance at winning the White House, and then we could be rid of him. Come on John, it’s a Republican tradition.


38 posted on 02/06/2008 5:45:46 PM PST by pallis
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To: Redmen4ever

McCain just ran an ad during American Idol


39 posted on 02/06/2008 5:46:20 PM PST by RDTF
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To: Redmen4ever

No, he should resign from the race.


40 posted on 02/06/2008 5:48:40 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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