Ditch Mitch too.
If I were a Tea Partier in Mississippi, I could never vote for someone who called me a Klansman. I would write in Mickey Mouse.
Is the judge a relative of Boss Hog Barbour, too? Cochran’s daughter-in-law, who kept the poll books, wouldn’t turn them over, so that may have been why he was late in filing the suit. I hope Cochran loses big. That senile old goat doesn’t deserve his hefty salary for stealing the election with Black Democrat help.
This is a state court decision. Wasn’t there a filing in Federal court also??
If this is final, I call on all conservatives in the state to write in McDaniel during the election. Yes it will cause the Dem to win and yes it will not succeed in getting McDaniel into office.
I WILL show the GOPe why they lost and by what margin.
An earlier thread if anyone is interested in reading the comments thereon:
MS judge throws out Chris McDaniel’s lawsuit against election result,
says he missed deadline
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3198546/posts
Judge Hollis McGehee agreed with the Cochran campaign’s contention that under a 1959
state Supreme Court ruling, there is a 20-day deadline to file an election challenge.
By contrast, McDaniel filed his challenge 41 days after after the June 24 Republican
primary runoff, which Cochran won by about 7,000 votes.
end snip
I kept wondering why McDaniel was taking so long to file an appeal. He should have followed the 20-day limit even if he didn’t have all the data that he needed.
Let Cochran lose the seat!
On the dismissal of the Chris McDaniel challenge in Mississippi
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/08/30/dismissal-of-the-chris-mcdaniel-challenge-in-mississippi/
Jazz Shaw
August 30, 2014
The news came out yesterday afternoon that yet another blow had been dealt to Chris McDaniel’s ongoing challenge to his runoff election against Thad Cochran. The ruling seemed to bear very little – if any – relevance to questions about voting improprieties at the ballot box, and everything to do with some paperwork.
” A Mississippi judge has tossed out state Sen. Chris McDaniel’s challenge to that state’s June 24 GOP primary runoff results, ending another chapter in one of the most bitterly contested U.S. Senate primaries in recent memory and bringing longtime Sen. Thad Cochran one step closer to another term in Washington.
Special Judge Hollis McGehee ruled that McDaniel waited too long to file his challenge with state Republican Party. McDaniel filed the challenge 41 days after the election; McGehee said that under state law the challenge had to be filed within 20 days.”
Some people are inevitably going to blame the judge – fair enough given the reputation of the political situation at times. But even some of the harshest critics of the decision had originally applauded the choice of McGehee.
“Was he bought off? True conservatives and supporters of Chris McDaniel had high hopes when the state supreme court named Judge Hollis McGehee to oversee the court challenge. And judging from his remarks during the case’s first hearing, he seemed to be an honest judge interested in doing what was right. Being a minister and man of God, how could we have expected any less from him? He indicated his intention to decide the case based on the will of the voters and that even if Cochran were elected in November he had the power to unseat him if he were not the legitimate nominee.”
Truth be told, you’d be handing even the most even handed judge a tough job in finding in McDaniel’s favor if the opposition opened up with a claim that state law demanded a challenge be filed within 20 days and you’d not done it until more than twice that time had passed......(Snip)