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thats what my hearts becomein that place you dare not look staring back at youRegistered User regular
thats what my hearts becomein that place you dare not look staring back at youRegistered User regular
This guy, Tommy Schrader
won a primary election for a city council seat while homeless but the Democrats got him ruled ineligible to run. Here is the way the local media covered the story.
http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/schrader-ill-see-you-in-court
I get the feelings this has to do with his earrings more than anything else. The day after the election reports on the local news brought up how they couldn't contact him at his listed address. I have never seen them run a story about a city council primary winner before that. All the attention they gave the story seemed fishy then and now it makes more sense.
I'm so pissed about my city politics lately. There was a contest to name the new courthouse and when the people decided to name it after Harry Baals they were overruled. Now they are resorting to court maneuvers to keep 'undesirables' out of the elections.
I hope this guy gets to run and wins. Failing that I hope he sues the hell out of this town or our democratic party.
So does everyone live in a town where democracy is just a sham or am I special?
won a primary election for a city council seat while homeless but the Democrats got him ruled ineligible to run. Here is the way the local media covered the story.
http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/schrader-ill-see-you-in-court
I get the feelings this has to do with his earrings more than anything else. The day after the election reports on the local news brought up how they couldn't contact him at his listed address. I have never seen them run a story about a city council primary winner before that. All the attention they gave the story seemed fishy then and now it makes more sense.
I'm so pissed about my city politics lately. There was a contest to name the new courthouse and when the people decided to name it after Harry Baals they were overruled. Now they are resorting to court maneuvers to keep 'undesirables' out of the elections.
I hope this guy gets to run and wins. Failing that I hope he sues the hell out of this town or our democratic party.
So does everyone live in a town where democracy is just a sham or am I special?
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I mean I don't see how this is any great hit on democracy....
A de facto ban on a social classes ability to take part in democracy is a pretty big failing.
Yet things like campaign finance reports are still important and need to be done appropriately.
I did enjoy this quote: I find the honesty refreshing.
I don't think a homeless person would have any campaign financing to declare. I'm not sure of the law but if you don't have any financing would you need to declare that?
I would think so.
I will bet you that if an establishment was late filing paperwork it would basically be ignored.
In fact that's not even a prediction. It's a thing I am pretty sure has happened.
Ok but that doesn't make doing it legal.
Just because OJ got off doesn't mean I'm ok to shoot someone.
Yup. McCain and Obama both missed the deadline in Texas by more than a bit, and Barr sued to have them thrown off the ballot. The judge threw out his suit without any explanation, and it ended there.
It's kind of an appropriate cross-over with the other "Above the Law" thread currently on the front page, isn't it?
This is where it gets sticky. It's easy to say that he violated the rules and thus should be ineligible, but it's arguably more important to be fair than to follow the rules in each discrete instance even if it leads to inequality against the small fries.
I don't really care that much which way they fall on the issue as long as it's consistant.
If he's a few days late with his paperwork, I don't think it's a big deal as long as it's in within a reasonable timeframe.
Right, but my point is that a person might be consistent and say that a major candidate who files late shouldn't be on the ballot either, but the system will never go with that so it's better to fight for outsiders to stay on if they're late too and try to maintain a semblance of fairness.
This is pretty much completely different from (usually nonpartisan) local races, where candidates aren't waiting on a drawn out nomination process to decide that they'd like to run and to file their campaign documents.
ed: to wit:
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
One wonders if he was also running for city council in green bay
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Not always - there's a scandal with NJ not filing for federal funding on time currently.