He loaned money to his campaign and wants to get paid back. He will continue the joke until he has screwed over – er – raised enough money for the campaign to pay him back. Then everything will disappear.
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Except it doesn’t. None of the votes in the GOP runoff were from voters who participated in the primary of any other party during the primary.
No state Republican Party rule or state law shall be observed
Wow that’s ballsy, the RNC gets to nullify laws? Why haven’t they been using this power all along?
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… persons who have participated … in the selection of any nominee of a party other than the Republican Party …
This would indicate that no one could ever switch parties to republican. It offers no time frame or limit, if you have ever voted in a democratic primary you can never participate in a Republican primary ever according to this rule.
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Chris who?
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…and even if it did apply; I don’t see the courts getting involved in what is an internal dispute within the Rethug party.
Since this is a national party rule, I am guessing all the Teahadists could do is petition the Republican National Committee (meaning the Rethug establishment–who just happens to back Cochran’s candidacy) for some sort of sanctions against the Mississippi Rethug party at the 2016 National Convention. The very definition of an “exercise in futility.”
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What a dick rule. From the dick party.
Does the dipshit realize that a Party Platform is not a legally-binding document?
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What? No lapel flag pin. Has the United States gone out of favor in MS?
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Yo! Chris McD. Where’s that challenge you were going to file last week?
Also. So the RNC doesn’t recognize the nomination. Cochran still won the state primary election. He’s the nominee, dude.
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Trying to get elected was McDaniels job before, now it’s just his hobby.
Don’t remember what the winning margin was,but the way I read that rule Mc has to prove that the winning margin+1 voters voted in the Dem primary and voted for Cochran in the runoff. I thought we’d already established that Cochran managed to turn out voters who did not vote in either primary,Dem or Repub?
My reading of “persons who have participated or are participating in the selection of any nominee of a party other than the Republican Party” is that it applies to the current election cycle only – otherwise, anyone who had ever voted in a Democratic primary at any time in their life – including those who voted for Hillary Clinton in the presidential primaries in 2008 – would be prohibited from ever voting in another Republican primary in Mississippi, and I’m quite sure they don’t mean that.
Seems to me it’s just the legalese for saying that you cannot vote more than one party’s ballot in any given primary election, and you can only vote in a run-off if either you didn’t vote at all in the initial primary, or you voted in the same party’s primary that you are seeking to cast a runoff vote in.
If they want to exclude people who normally vote for Democrats, then they are going to have to institute statewide party registration. And even then you would probably have most Democrats choosing to register as Republicans, because that’s currently where the real contest is – in the Republican primary, not the general election.
So, they are now at the “grasping at straws” phase of their grief management?
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Well, some of them have been claiming the right of nullification against the federal government for the last 200+ years. Not too surprising they would want to apply it to the state government as well.
The first part of the rule governs who can “participate in the selection of a nominee of the Republican Party for that general election.” In other words, who can attend a Republican nomination convention or vote in a Republican primary.
The second part says that no one nominated in violation of the first part will be recognized as the Republican nominee.
I just don’t think the rule was meant to read the way McDaniel is trying to make it read.
Well, first of all I feel so bad for the Klan, being cheated and all. Oops, I meant the Tea Party.
But three weeks ago we were promised by McDaniel and his lawyers at a big press conference that they would be filing proof that the election was stolen by illegal voters. Two weeks ago on the day that they had said they were going to file the court papers, they said that they would be filing within ten days. Ten days have come and gone and nothings been filed.
So Chris: If you’ve got proof that the election was stolen from you, put it out there. If you haven’t got proof, then STFU, you whiny little jerk.
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Sore loserman!
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I wold have gone with “typical,” but “laughable” works.
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So what this means is that all of the republican party fundraising and campaign committees are barred from doing anything to aid Cochran in the general election?