Discussion: BREAKING: Kansas Senate Ballots Will Be Sent Out Without Dem Nom

[henric668]

Somebody should sue Kobach for breaking what he declared was the law that turned out to be not so much the law.

[mikem42]

I believe he stated that he would caucus with the majority party. If that is the case, the Dems better hold on. Only the veto will prevent chaos in the country.

[sherron]

I’m sure Ko(ba)ch has some nefarious plan but I also think that he
has had his way in state and local politics for so long he thinks he is
bullet proof. Messing around with the Feds is a whole different
ballgame.

I’m hoping that this will be one of those cases where someone’s
arrogance does them in.

[jw1]

Looking increasingly like their ROI is a handful of Kobach’s testicles at this point.
C’est la vie!

jw1

[poindexter]

Wahh wah wah wahhhhhhhh!

[obenchainr]

The important part is probably the “as required by state law”. I’d guess that his thing about holding off until the 27th wasn’t legal, and he probably had someone point that out to him.

[slbinva]

For a party that takes such a strong position against frivolous lawsuits, they certainly do seem to engage in a lot of them.

[jinx_tpm]

I adore Nina Turner! She is a feisty one.

She reminds me of our Lena Taylor here in WI and I always get their names mixed up … :-S

[thunderclapnewman]

IOKIYAR.

(I’m told I must be more descriptive by the automated comment Nazi.)

[starquest]

I never understood their reasoning. By what law is a person required to be on the ballot? If I say I don’t want to be on the ballot, then god damn take me off the ballot.

Which is probably why they removed it.

[georgekaplan]

This is what should have happened weeks ago. Let the people vote and stop playing games with OUR Democracy.

[captaincommonsense]

I hate to say “Fuck you, Kris”, but…

…Fuck You, Kris.

[dr_coyote]

Kobach the Vote-Suppressor Kaves, thereby angering Koch Bros Overlords.

[slbinva]

@phd9

I don’t understand the rationale that states that party has to field a candidate for any particular office. What if they don’t want the job?

Here is my guess, from a post I made in a previous thread:

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I’m still trying to figure out what Kansas law says that the Democrats are required to field a candidate.

I’m wondering if Kobach is talking about [this][1]:

In order to maintain recognized status, a political party must field a candidate for statewide office who wins at least one percent of the total vote cast for such office at the general election. In 2010, for example, the statewide office for which the fewest number of votes were cast was Commissioner of Insurance. A total of 677,143 votes were cast for that office in 2010, meaning that a party’s candidate for that office would have had to win at least 6,772 votes in order for the party to retain state recognition.  (Kansas Statutes, Chapter 25, Article 3, Section 2b)

If so, it sounds like he is interpreting that to mean that you have to field a candidate for every statewide office and win some minimum number of votes for each one.  But that’s not what it says, and it seems to me it could just as well mean that you have to field a candidate for at least one statewide office – and the Democrats do have other statewide candidates running.  (And I think that latter reading makes much more practical sense.)

[1]: http://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_access_requirements_for_political_candidates_in_Kansas

[darrtown]

Kobach’s arrogance knows no bounds. Somebody had to have gotten to him to tell him it isn’t good policy to tell the Kansas Supreme Court to “stick it where da sun don’t shine.”

[barblzz]

Want to thank judge who slapped Kobach down. Thank you your honor.

[doremus_jessup]

I’m very suspicious of this yellow dog Democrat David Orel whose son just happens to work for Governor Brownback. I smell a rat.

[chadingo]

He’s betting a majority of the military absentee ballots from Kansas will vote republican, which seems probable. But he’s wasted a boatload of taxpayer $$$ on this crap and now is trying to get something out of it other than having his ass voted out of office. He’ll make a great desperate househubby

[srfromgr]

This asshole lost the case. Its actually worse than sour grapes. He’s a vindictive little shit. I hope this Orel character is determined to have no standing in the courts by virtue of the fact that he’s not asking for his name to be on the ballot as a Dem, but that some anonymous Dem. not yet named, should be represented. There’s such a thing as junk science. This is junk litigation. And then there’s this:

“Because of this, we are asking each county to keep all returned (overseas military) ballots bundled together and unopened upon receipt until the conclusion of the litigation,” the order said.

I hope they have a non-partisan place to store those ballots, like a safe in a courthouse somewhere, because this could take shape as another form of the “Mississippi Debacle” that Thad Cochran was drawn into. Roberts better watch it…his friends are trying to pull out all the stops for him. They’re sure to overreach.

[srfromgr]

OOoops…earlier I thought this guy’s first name was Orel. I really goofed when I wrote, “who names their child Orel?” Its his surname…in which case, you don’t get to choose.