More DeLay'd Corruption

© 2006

When BugBoy announced he was resigning after the Texas primaries, he was breaking Texas election codes once again. I guess we'll have to wait and see how the judge rules in this case. Whether or not she is an activist judge like the US Supreme Court was in the 2000 presidential (S)election.
The Repubs didn't have a problem going to the courts and getting their "Activist Judges" to rule in their favor, disenfranching the whole nation of the winner of the most votes.
Ah well the hypocrisy continues....

Section 145.036 of the Election Code governs the circumstances when a candidate can be replaced on the ballot following withdrawal or ineligibility of the candidate:

(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.

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