Posted on 11/13/2023 10:03:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Rules? RULES? Rules don’t apply to Dims.
Yup-—Sometimes I believe stuff like this is done on purpose to show us “we’re in charge and there’s nothing you can do about it”!
They are begging for the “Bubba effect” to kick in....
Yep, she’ll get a pass. Now if she were a Republican she would already have been removed.
Pleased to see that someone was paying attention.
Calling for a special election would only reward Democrat cheating. Hashmi’s candidacy should be disqualified and the next vote-getter should be declared the winner.
Imagine a Democrat strategy of running illegal candidates in swing districts just to gauge the voter turnout and trends. Then, when their candidate is declared invalid and a special election is called, Democrats know just where the votes are in what will be a lower-turnout election.
The Democrat get-out-the-vote machine will overwhelm the Republican winner in a smaller turnout "special" election that was only special because the Democrats failed (intentionally?) to run a valid candidate in the general election.
That's why they shouldn't be rewarded with a special election. Their candidate should be disqualified and the Republican should be declared the winner.
-PJ
....…four observant neighbors filed a complaint saying Democrat Hashmi actually lives outside the district she was elected to represent. Her ownership of the house since 1999, is on Bosham Lane in Midlothian, a fact she concealed on sworn election forms she was required to fill out.
Neighbors provided a detailed spreadsheet, documenting they had driven by the Hashmi house she willfully concealed, a total of 62 times during the month of October to document her residency.
The notes include (a) her car being there late at night, (b) early in the morning, and (c) her leaving the house shortly after 8 a.m. (d) It also includes photographic evidence.
Hashmi is in a legal bind, b/c if she did live in the Chesterfield apartment she belatedly rented, then she may have committed a felony by concealing her ownership of the Midlothian home on sworn election forms.
Yep it would have done 5 minutes after it was discovered
Democrats shouldn’t be rewarded with a special election.
The candidate should be disqualified and the Repub declared the winner.
Her opponent asserted that she was not qualified to run (b/c of all of the above).
Ergo, he ran “unopposed” and is, in fact, the winner.
Some people are so optimistic. We KNOW for a fact that rules and laws do not apply to Dims. The result will remain the same. The Rat will serve the term. The people will continue to be abused.
Winning the seat with 38% of the vote would be better than Lincoln winning the Presidency with 39% of the popular vote. That’s assuming there were o other candidates besides Fisher and Hashmi.
I’m almost certain that Republicans can find a way to screw this up and lose again.
Hah....... a state 2020 Biden (cough) “won” by 10 points.
Democrats can live wherever they want. Maxine Waters lives outside of her district...
Minor correction: Bob Giaimo stayed on until 1981. The Dem nominee to succeed him was none other than Joe Lieberman. Lieberman lost to liberal Republican Larry DeNardis that year, who in turn lost reelection after a single term to Bruce Morrison.
Rules are different for federal vs. state. To get elected to Congress, you merely need be a resident of the state your representing. For state legislatures, you usually have to explicitly live within the district lines of the seat you’re running for. That’s why gerrymandering was often so ruthless that it wasn’t unknown that the majority (usually Dem) would draw the lines around the home of an incumbent or challenger to disqualify them from running (or forcing them to go house-hunting for a new residence within - a pain in the ass, especially if you’re not wealthy).
Bruce Morrison was the worst-ever performing Democrat nominee for Governor in CT when he ran in 1990. After getting the nomination following Bill O’Neill’s retirement, he got a paltry 20% in the general. No general election opponent for Governor got less than that since 1825 (and that only because the defunct and split Federalist party fielded 3 candidates), and it was also the first time that a major party candidate (in a unified field) placed 3rd.
It looked like Lowell Weicker took more Dem votes running 3rd party than Morrison. John Rowland got 37%, almost winning, just 3% behind Weicker. I doubt that Morrison would’ve been any worse as Governor than Weicker, who was just a truly despicable individual.
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