Kentucky law prohibits a candidate from running for two different offices at once. Republican Sen. Rand Paul is running for re-election and is also exploring a bid for president.
Kentucky law prohibits a candidate from running for two different offices at once. Republican Sen. Rand Paul is running for re-election and is also exploring a bid for president.
>> “Sen. Paul is 100 percent focused on his re-election,” says spokesman Dan Bayens — even as Paul openly discusses his interest in running for president.
There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between LIEberals and LIEbertarians.
Hey, I really like this law! More states should do the same IMO.
Get rid of NPR
Government has NO business in the “news” business, esp the “biased ‘news’ business”
Public TV also. Get them both out
It indeed doesn’t seem right that the same candidate be on the same ballot for more than one ‘Federal Office’. Though unlikely, imagine if the same candidate got nominated for a congressional district, senate, and president all at the same time. What if they won all three? lol That’s a sloppy way of doing things. The winning candidate would choose which office they wanted, and the governor would appoint for the other two, effectively taking away the vote from everyone that participated in those other two elections, until a special election happens anyway.
Not how it should be done. If you’re gonna run for higher office, you owe it to your constituents, and others who may want to run for it; to vacate your seat.
They may not have a practical means to prevent him from doing so.
But if they do, he elects to leave his name off the Presidential ballot on the theory that he gets the Kentucky electoral vote anyway--put in his VP nominee as a stake holder for the Presidency in Kentucky. All kinds of ways around the problem.
You know, (and this is strictly a hypothetical-technical exercise because Paul doesn’t have my support for the POTUS nomination and I don’t think he’s going to get the POTUS nomination anyways), but the solution might be to have Paul’s name on the KY ballot for Senator and then run a favored-son candidate on the POTUS line who would promise to throw his electoral college delegates to Paul, in the event Paul won both the GOP nomination and the election.
Now Senator Paul has to choose one or the other. This is great news for Ted Cruz, and for those GOP voters who do not desire another generation of having a Paul run in every GOP Primary.
Pick one, Rand. I think you're a fine Senator.
It seems to me that the better solution would be for KY to change the early date for filing as a candidate to something later, giving Senator Paul the same opportunity as Rubio has. It would also apply to all candidates so it wouldn’t violate the state’s constitution.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see some pressure on the Dems in KY to do this. There’s a bit of pride involved in having a President hail from your own state, after all, and his Libertarian bent will put some pressure across party lines.
Not so much anymore.