[Consort]

Harris was supposed to turn in a letter saying when she would resign as secretary of state when she qualified for Congress on July 15. She didn't discover her mistake until two weeks later...

Considering what went on in Florida during the general election and the part that she played in it, she should NEVER have made this stupid mistake. If this is all true, then she should be disqualified and given the maximum penalty.

[Coop]

Where did you come up with that?!? It is true that she missed the deadline. So? The law, as stated in this article, says

...if a state or local elected official qualifies for a federal election and fails to turn in a letter at qualifying, the official is automatically forced to resign.

Resign from office? She did. Resign from the election? Why? Their whole point of contention is that she would potentially use her office to aid her campaign.

[Joe Brower]

It was an unfortunate gaffe, to say the least. Conservatives are always held to a much higher standard than their liberal counterparts, since the right tends to attack itself all too often (as you demonstrate), and the leftmedia is more than happy to make a mountain out of any available molehill.

On the other hand, there is no precedent for this, since the Secretary of State position she occupied is gone as of 1/2003. Imagine, government actually getting rid of, not adding, offices.

Add to this the fact that the Florida state A.G.'s office reviewed this situation at the order of governor Jeb Bush last week and, after analysis, publicly stated that no wrongdoing existed. Now why would that very important fact be omitted from the "news" article above, do you think?