[Fixit]

bump

[gcruse]

. "It is a shame Mr. Hill is wasting taxpayer dollars," she said in a statement.

I don't see how he is wasting any taxpayer dollars,
but c'est la vie.  I hope you had a less lame defense
that got editted out, ma'am.

[Vladiator]

Oh, come on.

Why is it people are always asking the courts in Florida to make such silly decisions?

[Vidalia]

This is pathetic...

[Lx]

I sure hope it doesn't end up in the Florida Supreme court, not they have an axe to grind against her.

[JulieRNR21]

FYI Ping.......is this serious or so frivilous it will be thrown out of court?

This John Hill is bad news! Didn't Butterworth make a similar mistake with no legal ramifications.....since Harris' office as SOS will no longer be elected; her resignation date doesn't seem critical to me.

[xzins]

If she didn't follow the law, then she needs to find a legitimate way around it. If she doesn't find it, and she has her name removed, it is clearly her responsibility for misreading the law.

Misread a ballot, misread a law. Sometimes __it happens.

[Political Junkie Too]

The lawsuit argues Harris should be removed from the ballot because she violated a state law that required her to file a letter of intent to resign as secretary of state when she qualified to run for Congress.

The solution is obvious: get the Florida Supreme Court to rule that the deadline is not really a deadline and that when she qualified is subject to interpretation. Her intent was to resign because she was running for another office, and clearly she couldn't serve in both offices so she must have been intending to resign.

Intent is the main issue to the Florida Supreme Court anyway, right? I mean, that's the way that they ruled in the past, right?

-PJ

[goldstategop]

Yup. Its too bad a Republican is trying to accomplish through a lawsuit what he couldn't through the ballot box. Rest assured he'll be buried in the primary come Sept 10th and Katherine Harris will be well on her way to represent beautiful Sarasota in the Congress in November.

[Ben Bolt]

Thanks for the locale news . I'll see 'ya folks on the morrow !

[Cacique]

Rules are rules. Got to stick with the rules. I hope he wins the suit.

[BlueNgold]

I haven't yet seen this info posted - please forgive if this is redundant:
BY LAW here in FL if someone does not submit a letter of intended resignation in this type of situation they are automatically resigned. Basically stated: there is a failsafe in the system and when she forgot or overlooked that point her resignation was no longer a matter of choice. Thus there can be no illegality in her failure to submit a letter of resignation. When the law includes such an 'if-then' clause by inference the statute allows the action as optional. For those who still don't get it, or don't want to get it .... this is akin to a pocket veto - the inaction is in and of itself an action under the law and therefore her conduct was legal.