The December 25 issue of the Durango (Colorado) Herald has this story about Joelle Riddle’s lawsuit against a law that says no one may be an independent candidate if that person has been a member of a qualified party an entire year before filing. Riddle is a County Commissioner who wants to run for re-election as an independent, but the law bars her from getting on the 2010 ballot as an independent because she was a registered Democrat in June 2009.
The article fails to mention that Riddle could, in theory, create a new ballot-qualified party for the entire state of Colorado. That new party, which could perhaps be called the Joelle Riddle Party, is free to pass a bylaw saying that it is willing to nominate any eligible person, regardless of that person’s past partisan affiliation. However, it would take 10,000 signatures to create a new party, although people anywhere in the state could sign. Given the more permissive rules for parties, it seems irrational for Colorado to impose such severe time restrictions on independent candidates.
Every election continues to be NEW and has ZERO connection with any prior election.
Separate continues NOT to be equal.
Brown v. Bd of Ed 1954
—regardless of the party hack MORON Supremes and armies of MORON lawyers doing the same old WRONG arguments in ballot access cases.
My son called everyone in the family MORONS at Christmas dinner. I threw him out of the house and told him to go post from the public library from now on.
42 years of his rudeness is enough, don’t you think? Why doesn’t that nice Mr Winger do the same and throw this rude little boy off this site??
How about throwing MORON imposter Mom’s off this site ???
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