As we reported earlier HERE, the replacement candidate for Rep. Bob Ney, who withdrew under the cloud of Abramoff corruption investigations, State Sen. Joy Padgett, had been challenged by Democrats under the state's "sore loser law." She had lost in the primaries as the Lt. Gov. running mate for Attorney General Jim Petro. Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, running for Governor, was asked for a ruling, which he kicked to the AG . . . Petro. Yahoo! reports here:
The favored candidate to take Rep. Bob Ney's spot on the ticket can legally do so under Ohio law, the state attorney general said Thursday.Secretary of State Ken Blackwell had sought the opinion from Attorney General Jim Petro as Republicans considered how to replace Ney, who announced this week he would not seek re-election.
State Sen. Joy Padgett is the leading candidate, and would be eligible to enter a special primary or replace Ney on the November ballot, the attorney general said.
Read the rest at the link above.
Of course, the "sore loser law" wasn't intended to prevent primary losers in a state race from later being chosen to replace a withdrawn candidate in a separate federal race. But you can expect the Dems will take this to court, claiming a conflict on the part of Petro.
Some may recall how differently Democrats behaved in the case of NJ Sen. Torricelli, who was destined to lose under a cloud of corruption. Then state laws were thrown out to allow his replacement by Lautenberg.
It's hard to blame them for trying to derail the strongest replacement for Ney in his strongly GOP district, though. It isn't like they could win the contest fair and square . . .
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I wonder if this race is on... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Robin | August 11, 2006 11:12 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I wonder if this race is one of the reasons that the ACORN group in Ohio submitted over 500 voter registration forms that were invalid:
Elections workers verifying new-voter forms discovered signatures with the same handwriting, addresses that were for vacant lots and incorrect information for voters who already were registered, Damschroder said. One card had the name of an East Side man who's dead.
From NRO'S Sixers.
1. Posted by Robin | August 11, 2006 11:12 AM |
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Posted on August 11, 2006 11:12
2. Posted by Jim Addison | August 11, 2006 1:36 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Well, ACORN is a bunch of neo-Marxist losers, but we know why they submit so many false voter registrations in every single voter drive, from past experience.
They pay for them. They recruit every homeless person, wino, and layabout in the area and pay them for each filled-out form they turn in. Now, those folks may be lazy substance abusers, but they aren't stupid. They know they can earn more by sitting down and filling out as many forms as they can than they could by actually trying to register voters. So that is what they do.
For the really aggravating part, ACORN has in the past received federal grant money to do this, and probably still is.
2. Posted by Jim Addison | August 11, 2006 1:36 PM |
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Posted on August 11, 2006 13:36