The local media have all be acting like Kobach has been seized by the Devil is is just making up his ruling that Taylor failed to comply with the law.
It would be funny if the court decided that he could remove his name from the ballot but that the result would be his opponent was now running unopposed.
I screamed at my tv set, when they couched it as Kobach being an obstructionist. They didn’t even mention the very clear law.
Of course. In court after court, the finding is always the same: Democrats don't have to follow election laws if doing so might mean they lose.
So if the supreme court takes him off the ballot, then would they have another conundrum for having to put another democrat on the ballot?
Crazy stuff.
CGato
Link to KS Statute:
http://www.ksrevisor.org/statutes/chapters/ch25/025_003_0006b.html
Its pretty clear. Taylor either has to be dead or “incapable of fulfilling the duties of office”.
Its practically impossible for Taylor to say he’s incapable, since the next obvious question would be why is he a sitting DA, if he is so incapable of holding office.
Its a 1997 law...not some ancient law that nobody remembers the reasoning behind.
They’re all political whores - willing to do just about anything to gain a senate seat. When the KS Supreme court rules in Kathleen’s...ahem...Mccaskill’s...ahem...Reid’s...oh yeah, Taylor’s favor, Kansas will have abandoned the rule of law.
He should appeal to the NJ supreme court. Not only would they take the case, they would even name his replacement, if they HAD to.....
Kobach should announce that he will not abide by their ruling if they do not follow KS law. Otherwise Kansas is about to be Torricelli’d.
Well, that’s that. He is off the ballot. Dems in charge of that court.
Here we go-the Democrats will get the rule changed!
But...but...but...statutes can only apply to Republicans.
In other words, the Democrat will be above the laws on the books AGAIN
How predictable. Political hacks acting as judges will simply determine a result and craft the reasoning behind it. It is not that our judicial system is broken, it is more that it has been corrupted. Having said that, the harder the democrats work to get Taylor off of the ballot, the more it makes Orman look culpable. Soon enough, Orman will be equated with the democrat party in them mind of the voter.
“But, but, that law wasn’t meant for ME!”
The ruling will be he can’t have his name removed because he’s withdrawing for election ‘strategery’.
It’s a political issue and the law is clear.
So Democrats in Kansas are so stupid they can’t just not vote for someone with a D next to his name even if he now doesn’t want the job?
That says a lot.