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Is Kesha Rogers ineligible to run for TX-22 as a Democrat?


by: derby378

Thu Mar 04, 2010 at 00:54 PM CST


She may have won the TX-22 Democratic primary, but considering how Rogers is calling for the impeachment of President Obama without any legitimate cause to do so, can the TDP declare Rogers ineligible to run on the Democratic ticket and select a replacement nominee?
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To wit, here is Article II, Section C, Paragraphs 2-3 of the TDP Rules:

2. The Party Officers covered by this provision include precinct chair, county chair, SDEC representative, State Chair, convention delegates and alternates, and any other officer elected by a Party committee or convention. (This would include, it seems, winners of Party primary elections.)

3. Acceptance by any person of a Party Office and participation in that capacity constitutes an agreement to the provision in the Statement of Principles that "every person who accepts a Party Office at any level (including the positions of Convention Delegate and Alternate) must agree to support all of the Party's nominees or shall be subject to removal."

So what do you think? Can a case for removing Rogers be made, or is the TDP stuck with her?

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Sorry, this rule doesn't apply here (3.00 / 1)
Party offices are separate from public offices.  The Democratic nominees for public offices are elected by primary voters, not Party committees or conventions.  The only party officers elected by primary voters are precinct chair and county chair, and these are specifically included in the excerpt that you quoted.

As much as I'd like to see Kesha Rogers removed for advocating that President Obama be impeached, I see no basis for that under the TDP Rules.

There is, however, a provision that preidential candidates who appear on the primary ballot in Texas must agree to support the Democratic presidential nominee, whoever that will be (Article VII Section A.2.b).  This provision was used to keep Dennis Kucinich off the ballot in 2008 because he didn't sign this statement on his application.  He said that he wouldn't support a nominee who wouldn't end the war in Iraq.  But unfortunately for him, it seems that no one at the TDP office informed him of the rule until it was too late.  And unfortunately for us, there is no such provision for elective offices other than president.


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