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Monday, April 03, 2006

Tom Delay Quits in Shame



The Bug Man cries uncle. I think he is flight risk and should be jailed like in any mob boss. What a cheap punk this glistening chunk of human sausage grissle is? People of Sugarland, he cares so little for you that he intends to live in Arlington VA now. The decent hard-working, but gullible people of Ft. Bend County are just foolish hillbilly jerks and rubes to Mr. High Pockets.

The prince of shame thinks he gets to pick his successor through his Texas puke hand puppets. I don't think so.

Here is the relevant portion of the Texas Election Code. I don't read it as Bug Man having the right to withdraw.

ยง 145.036. FILLING VACANCY IN NOMINATION. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), if a candidate's name is to be omitted from the ballot under Section 145.035, the political party's state, district, county, or precinct executive committee, as appropriate
for the particular office, may nominate a replacement candidate to
fill the vacancy in the nomination.
(b) An executive committee may make a replacement nomination following a withdrawal only if:
(1) the candidate:
(A) withdraws because of a catastrophic illness that was diagnosed after the 62nd day before general primary election day and the illness would permanently and continuously incapacitate the candidate and prevent the candidate from performing the duties of the office sought; and (B) files with the withdrawal request a certificate describing the illness and signed by at least two licensed physicians; (2) no political party that held primary elections has
a nominee for the office sought by the withdrawing candidate as of the time of the withdrawal; or (3) the candidate has been elected or appointed to fill a vacancy in another elective office or has become the nominee for another office.
(c) Under the circumstances described by Subsection (b)(2), the appropriate executive committee of each political party making nominations for the general election for state and county officers may make a replacement nomination for the office sought by the withdrawing candidate.
(d) For the purpose of filling a vacancy, a majority of the committee's membership constitutes a quorum. To be nominated, a person must receive a favorable vote of a majority of the members present.
(e) A vacancy in a nomination for a district, county, or precinct office that was made by primary election may not be filled before the beginning of the term of office of the county executive committee members elected in the year in which the vacancy occurs.

I don't know. What do you guys think?

1 Comments:

At 9:57 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

We knew way sooner than 62 days before that the F-head had brain clap.
I still don't get what brought this on. Did he know that Pastor Buckham was gonna spill on him?
Aren't they all? As I recall, Colyander and Ellis are facing possible life sentences, and that's in a fine Texas pen, not some cushy Federal joint.

 

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