McCain US Senate seat should remain VACANT until after the 2018 elections.

[nkpolitics1212]

If McCain leaves before May 31, 2018, the AZ US Senate seat should remain VACANT until the November 2018 election.
If McCain leaves after May 31,2018, the AZ US Senate seat should remain VACANT until the next Governor of AZ is sworn in. If the Democratic Nominee wins the 2018 AZ Governors Race, that person gets to fill the vacancy until the 2020 Special Election.

[Eko]

1. What does Arizona law say about this?

[Eko]

2. Nope, we should stick with the law.

"For a vacancy in the office of United States senator, the governor shall appoint a person to fill the vacancy. That appointee shall be of the same political party as the person vacating the office and shall serve until the person elected at the next general election is qualified and assumes office. If the person vacating the office changed political party affiliations after taking office, the person who is appointed to fill the vacancy shall be of the same political party that the vacating officeholder was when the vacating officeholder was elected or appointed to that office."
https://www.azleg.gov/viewdocument/?docName=http://www.azleg.gov/ars/16/00222.htm

[Tiggeroshii]

3. I second this reasonable concept.

[BigmanPigman]

4. I bet McConnell has a plan waiting to be implemented.

He is evil incarnate.

[shanny]

5. Y'know, I'm all for due process and I live in the hope

that a Democrat takes that seat...but can we please avoid the same behavior that the deplorable White House aide indulged in?

Let the man die in peace instead of strategerizing over the corpse in advance.

[gopiscrap]

6. ah no because that's how republicans steal seats

I have long said our tactics need to be as dirty as theirs...that's how you gotta be now otherwise you lose

[Tiggeroshii]

7. their dirty tricks will likely have a large price to pay electorally

...believe it or not.

[shanny]

8. Call them out on their dirty tricks then

In real time and real loud! I can't believe we have let them get away with all the crap they've been pulling--voter fraud BS, vote suppression, etc etc with barely a word at the time. Lawsuits years later are not enough.

[nkpolitics1212]

9. I want to seek revenge on the Republicans for preventing Obama from picking Scalia's successor.

We should prevent Doug Doucey from picking McCain's successor.