[katherineisgreat]

P.S.- that poll on the Herald's front page needs more freeping!

[katherineisgreat]

PING.

[KatherineHarris4Congress]

Gosh, it's so hard to believe that in three days, it'll be the Primary. Wow, time flies when you're having fun. Just keep hoping that someone knocks some sense into that judge before he rules...if no one else will, I'll be happy to (haha). Must say though, that these Katherine pictures are some of my favorites, however my personal favorites are the one that Katherine and I talked about from May. Anyways, Katherine is truly an amazing Southern lady, who deserves to be in Congress if not being the first female President. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed and praying overtime!

[The Other Harry]

I'm trying very hard to convince myself that Judge Davey's stalling doesn't mean anything bad, but it's not working. Any thoughts?

My very wild guess is that she wins the RP primary, gets d'q'ed by the judge, and then gets reinstated on appeal.

I don't think the judge wants to d'q' her when she lacks enough time to appeal his decision before the primary election. So, I think that is what he will probably do (disqualify her from the ballot retrospectively.).

After the 2000 election, needless to say, the election laws and the precidents in Florida are somewhat confusing. I suspect Judge Davey doesn't want to wade into the middle of this.

This will definitely be an interesting one to watch.

[E=MC²]

Personally, I've never really noticed any significant correlation between whom a newspaper endorses and that person winning the election, especially in the case of the Sarasota Herald Democrat Tribune's endorsements. Hopefully, this trend will continue.

[patriciaruth]

Bump!

[The Other Harry]

By the way, a related thread from this morning is here.

[Always Right]

The mistake was not Harris as much as the law of Florida. The Florida law was supposed to have been corrected to be in compliance with the Supreme Court rulings against Resign to Run laws for people seeking Congress. Florida added a paragraph which made people running for federal offices were automatically considered resigned. The requirement for the letter of resignation would be redundant and thus not applicable. However the paragraph does not specifically state it does not apply, so it is ambiguous. There is really only one way this court can rule and be upheld, and that is for Harris. Otherwise the judge would be ignoring established law.

[FreeTally]

I'm trying very hard to convince myself that Judge Davey's stalling doesn't mean anything bad, but it's not working. Any thoughts?

I can only offer this: As posted on other threads by a few different Freepers, there is no penalty under Florida law for failing to file a resignation other than that the person is "automatically" resigned the day they gave their intent to run for the office. Being kicked off the ballot is not a remedy under Florida law for this. Everyone involved knows it. For a judge to rule against Harris, he/she would have to cite a law stating that being kicked off the ballot is the remedy.