UPDATE: Dallas Republicans Playing Games
Remember how I told you about Dallas Republicans filing paperwork to remove 128 candidates in the Democratic primary and how completely absurd that is?
Well, our buddy Glen Maxey – who probably wrote the law and who can read writing – put the answer on Facebook.
Here ya go, straight from Glen —
Hear about that frivilous lawsuit filed by the Dallas Republicans? (See I put “frivoulous lawsuit” and “filed by Republicans” in the same sentence: Pigs do fly!) They claim the Democratic Chair didn’t sign candidate applications. Oh, my. There’s a blank right there on the form for the Chair to sign their name. Oh, but the Chair didn’t sign them, the Primary Director did. What a travesty! Oh, my! We can knock 128 Democrats off the ballot because these crazy Democrats didn’t follow the law!
HOWEVER, right next to the signature blank on the SOS prescribed application is a cite of the Texas Election Code. Sec. 1.007. And that little gem says ANY employee of an authority can accept a filing for the authority (i.e. the Chair).
As Emily Litella would say: “NEVERMIND”.
Sec. 1.007 DELIVERING, SUBMITTING, AND FILING DOCUMENTS. (a) When this code provides for the delivery, submission, or filing of an application, notice, report, or other document or paper
with an authority having administrative responsibility under this code, a delivery, submission, or filing iwith an employee of the authority at the authority’s usual place for conducting official business constitutes filing with the authority.
And for you youngsters out there, here’s Emily Litella.
I remember fondly Emily’s editorials on Endangered Feces (“Why, we’ll never get rid of all of it!”) as well as Saving Soviet Jewelry. Thanks for posting.
1Thank you JJ! It’s still early out here in Hawaii, and Emily Litella really makes a lot of sense before I’ve finished my first cup of coffee in the morning.
Certainly much more sense than most activities of the Republican Party, any time of the day, or night. Like their fearful leader, they certainly have an aversion to reading. Many seem to wish the only literacy an American needed would be to discern the WHITE and COLORED signs on bathroom doors. It was good enough for racist grandpa, so it’s good enough to MAGA.
2Right on, Vickie. I hope we see all of Trumpco on The Endangered Feces List.
3Rick@
4Yeah it was early in Hawaii espiacially after tsunami alert last night keeping some of us up longer then we should.
So yeah this took a while to sink into by befogged and sleep deprived brain.
Thanks for the update, JJ. And to party heads who read.
I’m loving it. Came at just the right time.
5k –
6You’ve got that right. If it ain’t inbound one thing, it’s another.
This episode is a good example of the crap that Republicans pull: Even if it misses, it stinks, and it sticks to whatever it does hit.
Hillary was coated in something like 30 years of “stuff”, and she got dragged down by the whiffs of impropriety that were placed there. And on top of that include her own screw-ups to make it possible for the stupidest/most ignorant man to ever run for POTUS to beat one of the office-savviest persons.
Just wait, the “stink bombs” are coming from the next round, too…
7I miss Emily Littella, and Gilda Radner even more.
It’s too bad just one SOB
in the GOP
doesn’t have the humility
of Emily Littella.
(Kinda poetic, init.)
8Frivolous lawsuits should be sanctioned. I personally attended three of the public hearings here in Dallas County and am most unimpressed with these Republicans.
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