MN Supreme Court Removes Republican from Special Election Ballot

http://www.timescape.us/podcasts/Ek.pdf

http://www.stcloudtimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/...

"The Minnesota Supreme Court has ordered Sue Ek’s name removed from the Dec. 27 special election ballot.

Ek was the Republican candidate for an open House seat in District 15B. The decision came after a 75-minute hearing this morning. She was running against Stearns County Commissioner Larry Haws, the DFL-endorsed candidate.

On Friday, a lower-court judge ruled that Ek did not meet the residency requirement to run for the Legislature in St. Cloud. The Supreme Court agreed with the findings. State law requires a candidate to live within a district for six months. Ek signed an affidavit July 9 saying she lived in St. Paul."

The candidate in this election signed an affidavit in Nov. saying that she had lived in St. Cloud, MN since June 27. Unfortunately, she signed an affidavit in July saying she was a resident of St. Paul. She signed the June affidavit not knowing that she would be running for office in this special election, she signed the affidavit so she could run a "home" business. When called upon to explain the affidavit, she claimed she hadn't read it, and became confused.

There is a second election on the same ballot where the Republican has doctored Bush rally photos, to put his own signs in the pictures instead of Bush's. He also has a picture on his website of his wife and a child. He fails to disclose that the child is not his, but is a god child.


See these posts for more back ground on the two elections which are on the ballot in Central Minnesota.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=160x16125

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=160x16113

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=160x16123

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=160x16052

Legislative candidate Sue Ek signed an affidavit July 9 saying she lived in St. Paul, 12 days after the deadline to establish residency in St. Cloud for a Dec. 27 special election.

The affidavit, plus the Republican House 15B candidate's record of voting in St. Paul from 2001-04, might disqualify her from eligibility, said David Schultz, a Hamline University and University of Minnesota professor who specializes in election law.

"If she was still living in the house in St. Paul and still registered to vote in St. Paul, she was still a resident of St. Paul," he said.

Minnesota law requires legislative candidates to establish residency in the district they hope to represent at least six months before the election. For this election, the deadline was June 27.

http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051...

Been too much ink wasted on that one already - glad its over.

oh well.

:kick:

that keep her from running for congress in the district of her choice? :sarcasm:
Another ethics challenged fuckup brought to you by the Republic party. :rofl: