What is to prevent successive resignations just before the next election, to continue forever, thus making this senate seat non-elected. If Joe Blow is appointed and serves until 10 days before 2004, then resigns then the Gov. gets to appoint for another two years. It could go on forever. The answer, I belive, is the Constitution trumps these bad state laws. This is both absurd and evil. The Democrats are not just another polictical party, they are evil. We still fight them "inside the rules" but they are the Tyson of politics, low blows, ear biting, whatever it takes. We need a Lennox Lewis figure to clean up the political ring just like he cleaned up boxing by knocking out Tyson. We need to KO the Demmocratic Party. It's too bad the blackmail worked in the impeachment time, we had a shot then.
Exactly. The influence of Clinton has pervaded their very beings. They are stains upon the Constitution.
The add'l answer is the statute doesn't say what everyone is reading. The 30 day stuff its only effective when the vacancy occurs for OTHER than the end of the term.
What has been preventing this is a lack of this much desperation until now ... What will prevent it, should the dems prove themselve so stupid, is a legal challenge to the practice, in a sort of a class action election law RICO case.
The dems are desperate; we all know that. They have created their own desperation by their lust for power as an end in itself, having forogtten why the public entrusted them with power in the first place. I just don't think we realized exactly how desperate till November 2000.