He stopped paying her for services.
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Calvinball only works for so long.
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It looks like he is going back to his original district. He may have a problem with getting through the primary and winning in the general, with the districts redrawn as per the NC Supreme Court. Unfortunately, we canât be sure of getting rid of this asshole due to the hillbilly/deliverance vote in Western NC but the Dems may do better statewide, which is more important.
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Katie Porter, I would be willing to bet, spends less time and money fundraising than either one of them too. She should be in the senate, IMO.
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Check again next week.
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And heâll have to raise that defense again, because he found no better one, and eligible voters from his new district are making a new submission.
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His lawyer did that because his lawyer is an unpaid publicity hound, not because cawcaw (who has likely never read the constitution) told him to. The better defense is, you canât block me from the ballot just because some mook says I insurrected, only the House may make that determination. I mean, weâre in âprove youâre not a witchâ territory. Thatâs why the election commission ducked the first attempt to remove cawcaw from the ballot.
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Sometimes you go with the turd you have. Because it is yours.
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That is happening:
Free Speech for People, a national election and campaign finance reform group backing the challenges, said in a written statement Thursday that theyâll keep pressing for his disqualification.
âWe will be refiling this challenge on behalf of voters who live in the congressional district which Madison Cawthorn selects for his candidacy,â the group said.
Cawthorn has until Tuesday to withdraw as a 13th District candidate and until midday March 4 to file for another seat. A spokesman for Cawthorn didnât immediately respond to an email Thursday seeking comment about the boardâs decision and what his electoral plans now are for 2022.
The new 13th District is now more than 200 miles east of where Cawthorn lives, which is in the far-western 11th District that he currently represents. The 11th is largely intact in the new map and is considered a Republican-leaning district. The new 13th District is likely a toss-up.
Loveâs letter was also filed in U.S. District Court, which is judging a lawsuit filed by Cawthorn. He wants to stop the challenge against him and have the entire process struck down, saying it violates a candidateâs constitutional rights. The lawsuit could become moot if the current challenge wonât move ahead. U.S. District Judge Richard Myers scheduled a meeting Friday with the lawsuitâs attorneys.
A Witch hunt is a claim of a non existent crime: we have a real insurrection Cawthorn participated in.
The claim this âis trying to prove a negativeâ is inaccurate: in the original complaint, the voters listed Mad Cawâs actions they allege were insurrectionary: and the Committee has asked for a response. As we keep sayinâ there is no trial.
Can States impose other qualifications (like no criminality, even if unprosecuted?) Are No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.â
â U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 2, clause 2 to be the sole determination of filing?
Open questions.
Again, this administrative process, until overturned, is sound. That itâs tied to a specific event and is NC specific limits its application. Itâs a slippery slope argument to suggest it will be some kind of generalized tool for preventing candidates filing.
A lot of things that offensive to reason are legal, particularly at the intersection of law and politics.
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Iâd trust her more if she didnât consistently throw in with the useless âJustice Democratsâ who, unlike Rep. Porter have a tradition of doing very little other than bashing members of their own caucus.
WTF? Why would NC protect this idiot? He sure doesnât DO anything for the state or make the Party LOOK goodâŚ
If your handle means youâre a systems programmer, you might understand that ârules are rulesâ even when the result might be unwanted in a specific case. The complainants are from the old district that he wonât be trying to represent, so they donât have standing under this law. The Board canât get rid of Cawthorn based on that. A new group of voters from the new district is filing a new complaint, and I donât think the Board will âprotectâ Cawthorn when that gets heard. The state GOP establishment gerrymandered that district for their own longtime guy.
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She was called back to Moscow.