They need sore loser laws like Texas does to keep this from happening.
Look what happened with Scozzafava in New York.
we can work towards it…. I get sick of these politicians that are convinced that THEY are more important than the voters who put them there in the first place. We might be better off if we just picked names out of a hat and strict laws about lobbyists
It isn’t sore loser. May was to run in a primary, apparently. The “party” decided not to have a primary but to choose the nominee at a get-together. May said he would have won a vote by voters but not by party insiders.
So, he decided to go for a vote by voters as an independent. It’s a complicated mess. It does appear that he is a conservative businessman/engineer employing hundreds and having a couple dozen serious patents to his name.
As I read some of the background, it sounds like the gop-e might have undercut a conservative. I’m not certain about that yet.
Which would work if Virginia had a primary. But it appears that the candidate was chosen by party insiders and not by the rank-and-file.