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What about this nightmare?

Its getting so old that its boring. Its certainly not a scarey nightmare, its a nightmare in that people keep posting it OVER AND OVER AND OVER. Yes, that is a nightmare.

Cruz appoints Davis Lt Gov (Repubs do not have a majority to block).

Never happen in a million years, I don't know if you got the memo, but the despise eachother, Cruz thinks he has a shot, so he is taking it. He has alienated, not pun intended, the rest of the party in doing so and contradicting party edict. So everything that follows in this "nightmare" is laughably untrue.

Well yes, the resignation concept has been discussed over and over, but there is one technical point that I don't think has been thoroughly looked at.

It is generally agreed that a Davis resignation does not stop the recall.

However, there is not so much agreement on exactly what happens with the recall election if he does resign first. This gets into a somewhat grey area of the law.

Assume he resigns, and the recall goes forward, there are good arguments on the following points:

1. Does Cruz become "acting" gov, or "full" gov in the interim? There are major ramifications in this.

2. Does Question 1 still appear on the ballot, or does it disappear from the ballot. This also has major ramifications.

You assume that Cruz has gone against the power structure of the Demo party. This may be true, or they may be playing a deep game. No one knows what pressure can be brought on Cruz when it is needed. Remember the games played in New Jersey.