Posted on 10/04/2010 10:58:25 PM PDT by flamefront
Plain and simple. Jerry Brown is ineligible to run for Governor.
CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 5 EXECUTIVE
SEC. 2. The Governor shall be elected every fourth year at the same time and places as members of the Assembly and hold office from the Monday after January 1 following the election until a successor qualifies. The Governor shall be an elector who has been a citizen of the United States and a resident of this State for 5 years immediately preceding the Governor's election. The Governor may not hold other public office. No Governor may serve more than 2 terms.
He wasn’t eligible for attorney general either.
The Democrat party’s corruption is apparently boundless.
Not true.
Brown was governor prior to term limits, so it does not apply to him.
However, his dismal record as governor does.
He’s exempt!
ALLERT THE PRESS
Seriously why haven’t they brought this up.
And why hasn’t the Republican Party stomped around yelling and screaming about it.
Why didn’t Brown’s primary opponents launch in to great diatribes about it.
Yeah....and how many pensions and benefits does he get,......enquiring minds seek to know....?
That is the only and false argument we are hearing from Brown on the matter. Do laws have no meaning? The law applies today. He was a 2 term governor. He is not able to run. If it were that way all kinds of exceptions would be allowed.
That didn’t stop Obama.
This will make a great study some day in mass delusion.
Well, unless there’s another section that’s applicable, it doesn’t qualify “two terms” as “two consecutive terms” or mention that the law only applies to candidates AFTER a certain calendar date (ie no prior exceptions).
Why is not the Republican Party not challenging this and trumpeting his ineligibility? Get the lawyers in the courts and start the lawsuits NOW. Be effing proactive CA Republican Party!!!
So Brown figured - nobody is looking, I'll try to get away with it too.
Since when did that stop the Socialists?
Election laws? Dims don’t need no stinkin laws.
Obamie is a perfect example.
It is my understanding, the law is not retroactive to prior to when it was enacted. No one could be elected more than twice after it was passed.
Whether or not this is correct, we have to accept the courts would rule in his favor. That is how the system works. Does anyone doubt this?
We need to defeat him at the ballot box.
Reminding people he already was governor and started CA’s decline will help. Define Brown as the failed incumbent.
I think politicians on both sides would like to have unlimited terms. And no more elections.
Was this actually adjudicated, as far as the idea of “not retroactive” goes? I’d love to know.
Only one explanation is possible.
Republican and Democrat alike have decided that the US Constitution is no longer the supreme law of the land.
So buy extrapolation the States Constitutions also no longer have any significance.
Constitutions are impediments to politicians doing as they like so they must be studiously ignored.
It politicians start bringing up the constitution in debates or when speaking to the press the plebes might notice these archaic documents start reading them and take notice that politicians have been tracking mud across their civil rights for years.
Sure they would, power is more addictive than cocaine.
There is only one reason that Senators like Kennedy and Bird run for reelection until they’re dead. They can’t imagine life with out power.
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