Herb Lux loses lawsuit

I want to ditto Larryg’s comments.

Both of our “national” political parties are completely out of control. Their utter lack of concern, particularly in Washington DC, is tantamount to criminality. Candidates from both parties will tell you whatever they believe will get them elected; once elected they will promptly tell you to go to h***.

Yeah, I am not sure that I disagree with the laws surrounding who should run for office. The law allowing state residents to run outside their home makes sense to discourage gerrymandering someone outside their district. Also, the petitions should be collected by a district resident to avoid paid staff being hired to throw an election. Those make sense to me.

The two party system, with all its faults still is better IMHO than a system like Italy’s for example where there are 15 candidates and the one with 10% of the vote wins. What exactly about the law did this man not understand? Ridiculous waste of county resources. He should have been made to pay the cost of county expenses.

As is often the case….it is not the system, but those that take advantage of it that are so rotten. Politicians today only care about “us” at election time and even then their “care” comes in the form of lying through their teeth.

Politics today has evolved to pure ideology; all black or white, no gray.

Again, Larry is correct. Run, but not collect signatures? What sense does that make?

The esteemed Chairman of the Spotsy GOP says, “Also, the petitions should be collected by a district resident to avoid paid staff being hired to throw an election.” Is he saying politicians do not hire paid staff for campaigns? Nonsense.

Larry and Bill, I couldn’t disagree with you more.

1. It is incumbent on someone running for office to know the rules before running. To run afoul and complain later is just not acceptable. From the GOP’s side, we spend a lot of time, treasure and talent making sure conservative candidates in Spotsylvania know the rules and abide by them.

2. The wisdom behind the rule about collecting signatures is that it makes sure the people of a given area really want a given candidate to run. Otherwise you could have an outsider like George Soros hire a bunch of people to flood the area… The situation lends itself to encouraging corruption.

Whatever you think about the rules of the game, it is always a good idea to think about the wisdom behind them- then do the cost-benefit.

This is true Bill! I think we can agree on that.

Steve it would be good if you understood the rules and when they are contrary to our Constitution and serve no legitimate purpose you should be supportive in changing them.

1. The Constitution. Article I Section. 2 Paragraph 2
To run for the House of Representatives you must be 25 years of age, seven years a Citizen of the United States and be an Inhabitant of the State when elected.
The Bulletin from the State Board of Elections states under Running as an independent; A candidate may collect his/her own signatures but is not required to do so.

2. There is no wisdom in what the State has done with the rule (law). It makes no sense to have a law where voters are prohibited from signing the Candidates own Petition. The required 1000 signatures must be from registered voters in the District which makes sense. It makes no sense to have to have a surrogate collect signatures for a Candidate. As a voter, who would you rather talk to for your signature, the Candidate or a surrogate? The way it stands at this point, a Candidate doesn’t have to collect one signature himself. You can hire someone in the District or just have volunteers collect them as the Candidate sits on his butt. Of course for incumbents that’s just great they don’t have to come off their pedestal. A legitimate purpose would be to require a Candidate to collect at least a certain percentage of the signatures himself not to prohibit him from collecting any.