Quitting my campaign got a Republican election-rigger into trouble he deserves (Kansas)

[deminks]

A comment by Miranda Rickel, who also withdrew from her race as a Democrat in Kansas elections.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/18/republican-election-kansas-secretary-of-state

(snip)

A bit of background for the rest of you: at a hearing here in Kansas on Tuesday, Beier apologized for turning my withdrawal from a state House campaign into the center of a lot of unexpected national attention, as she and the other justices considered whether our Republican secretary of state, Kris Kobach, was right to prevent the Democratic candidate for United States Senate, Chad Taylor, from withdrawing from his race.

Earlier this year, I filed as a Democratic candidate for the fifth district of the Kansas state House of Representatives – a rural district in east-central Kansas comprising farms, hobby farms and some small blue-collar towns.

Although I was still in college, and still am, some of the local Democrats asked me to run because they had trouble finding a candidate to challenge an unpopular, one-term conservative Republican incumbent. What’s the point of a democracy if no one runs against the incumbents?

(snip)

So, although Kobach – a very close Roberts ally – accepted my letter and withdrew my name from the ballot, he refused to accept Taylor’s letter. Thus, the justices, Kobach and attorneys for Taylor spent several hours comparing the intricacies of my withdrawal letter with Taylor’s.

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I hope Miranda runs again in the future when she has more time.

Why do I have to go to the Guardian to get Kansas news? Rhetorical question.

[mrdmk]

1. Truthfully, ask that question of, 'Why do I have to go to the Guardian...?'

K & R

[progressoid]

2. Rec!

[hfojvt]

3. I had not heard of the 5th district either

I guess that makes one more district where the Republican is running unopposed.

I still have not made my mind up about Orman yet. Right now he kinda disgusts me more than Roberts.

Maybe if I see a few hundred more of those Roberts ads calling him a huge liberal I will warm up to him.

Although being a "liberal" in Kansas reminds me of what my best friend from high school said. "I've been a conservative Republican all my life until I move to Kansas where they think I am a flaming liberal."

[LiberalAndProud]

4. Not to derail the discussion ...

When articles contain links to other articles, I can get a whole slew of tabs open before I get to the end.

This one has me intrigued. A goldfish ... What?

Those who squeezed into the packed courtroom to hear the oral arguments in Taylor v Kobach, however, were rewarded with an animated performance from both legal teams, in discussion that veered from an obscure 1997 statute to the meaning of a declaration and, at one stage, the question of whether a goldfish makes a suitable witness.