Posted on 07/11/2019 3:53:52 PM PDT by Coronal
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers are seeking once again to force President Trump to release his tax returns by blocking access to the state primary election ballot if he does not.
The matter is now in the hands of Gov. Gavin Newsom, after the state Senate gave final approval Thursday to SB27, which would require presidential candidates to release their last five years of income tax returns in order to be eligible for the primary election in California.
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Counter; since Newsome you are threading to tamper in a federal election, your votes are all null and void and your state will not be counted. Any other states try the same thing, and they won’t be counter either.
republicans ran in the primary but the most votes was 7.8% The list of them is below.
Under Cal law the top 2 primary vote getters run fun Nov. So two dems ran Sanchez and Harris.
Republican Party[edit]
Declared[edit]
Greg Conlon, businessman[6]
Tom Del Beccaro, former chairman of the California Republican Party[49][50][51]
Von Hougo, educator[52]
Don Krampe, retiree and candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2012[53]
Jerry J. Laws[6]
Tom Palzer, former city planner[54]
Karen Roseberry, educator[6]
George “Duf” Sundheim, former chairman of the California Republican Party[49][55][56]
Ron Unz, activist and candidate for governor in 1994[57]
Jarrell Williamson, attorney[6]
Phil Wyman, former state senator[58][59]
George C. Yang, businessman[6]
The White House has to challenge this b.s. soon, because of the terrible lag in the courts. All these states have to do is delay until “it is too late to print up new primary ballots”.
So the administration needs to get an injunction in place to stop this now.
Clearly, DOJ will challenge and SCOTUS will overturn this.
OTOH, how many Electoral votes did Trump get from California last time around?
Fine Jim, if you want to be precise, qualifications for President none of which have to do with the release of tax returns.
Primary elections of political parties are voluntary activities, since political parties do not exist in the Constitution (and I’m sure would have been banned had they thought of it) I’m not sure laws regulating how they function can be said to affect Article II.
The California legislature's system for appointing Electors is not a Federal election.
Yes, of course they could. Voting by individuals is not required by the Constitution, the appointment of Electors is the sole prerogative of the Legislature.
It so happens that all 50 Legislatures have chosen a popular vote method to do this (except for the 3 electors Congress awarded itself in 1960), but it is not required.
The California Legislature could do as you suggest tomorrow and it would absolutely be Constitutional.
Votes have no significance in our system for choosing the President. TH he California Legislature has sole authority to appoint their 55 Electors, they can do so however they see fit.
This is cheesy political theater. Anyone with Pres. Trumps annual income is under perpetual tax audit. He has a battery of accountants to heck every penny. If there was something there it would have been revealed a long time w.
No votes, no representatives.
Ballots are.
Ballots are what?
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