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brooklynite

(94,594 posts)
Thu May 14, 2020, 09:04 PM May 2020

Colorado Supreme Court removes second Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Lorena Garcia, from primary

Coilorado Sun

The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday removed another Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from the June primary ballot after reversing a lower court’s order.

Lorena Garcia, a community organizer, should not be allowed to participate in the election, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled.

Garcia didn’t collect enough signatures — 1,500 from each of Colorado’s seven congressional districts — to make the primary ballot.

She argued before Denver District Judge Christopher Baumann that the coronavirus crisis created an impossible burden for signature collection. He agreed and put her on the ballot after determining that since she collected half the necessary signatures she showed enough support to warrant being part of the primary.

But the Colorado Supreme Court has rejected Baumann’s reasoning.

“While we recognize that the circumstances that made signature collection more difficult this year are unprecedented, we do not have the authority to rewrite the Election Code in response to the COVID-19 virus,” the court wrote in a decision handed down Monday in the ballot-access case of another Democratic U.S. Senate candidate. “… The Election Code’s minimum signature mandate requires strict compliance.”


The once large field is now down to Hickenlooper and Romanoff.
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Colorado Supreme Court removes second Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Lorena Garcia, from primary (Original Post) brooklynite May 2020 OP
Seems like a fair ruling to me. Laelth May 2020 #1
I'd say the main argument was that other candidates were able to surmount the same barriers brooklynite May 2020 #2
That's what it looks like to me. backscatter712 May 2020 #4
Horseshit lawsuit. Hickenlooper and Romanoff were able to collect enough signatures. Jose Garcia May 2020 #3

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
1. Seems like a fair ruling to me.
Thu May 14, 2020, 09:07 PM
May 2020

It was a tough call. It could have gone either way, and I would not have been too upset.

-Laelth

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)
4. That's what it looks like to me.
Thu May 14, 2020, 09:55 PM
May 2020

Let's hope Romanoff gets some traction - he's who I voted for in the caucuses, just before Captain Trumps hit.

Jose Garcia

(2,598 posts)
3. Horseshit lawsuit. Hickenlooper and Romanoff were able to collect enough signatures.
Thu May 14, 2020, 09:32 PM
May 2020

Why should the rules not apply to her just because her campaign can't get its s@#t together?

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