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« Dog Track | Main | Pushing an Unconstitutional Payroll Tax » June 17, 2005To Make Law, She Must First Break the Law
From today's Tennessean: She does not live in District 29, but said she plans to move there soon. She said Shelby County Election Commission officials told her that would not be an issue.Oddly, the paper's online edition doesn't have the rest of that same paragraph that's in the print edition: However, the Tennessee Blue Book of official state information says that one qualification for the Senate is residency in the district for one year preceding the election.The primary election is Aug. 4, and the election is Sept. 15, less than three months from today. Ophelia Ford does not meet the residency qualifications as required by law. She must break the law in order to become a lawmaker and take her allegedly-lawbreaking brother's place in the state Senate. I wonder what Harold Ford Jr. thinks about that. Posted in Tennessee News
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Remember that John Ford doesn't live in that district, either. Apparently the people around there don't care, and, of course, you're a racist if you dare question John's ethics or residency, or look at him funny. Posted by: Michael Chaney at June 17, 2005 02:11 PMArticle II, Section 10 says: "No person shall be a Senator unless he shall be a citizen of the United States, of the age of thirty years, and shall have resided three years in this State, and one year in the county or district, immediately preceding the election." But the fudge factor, at least locally, has been "county or district" which has been liberally read to mean as long as she's been in Shelby County for a year. I can't recall who, but at least one local office holder got to run in a House election with this interpretation. Posted by: mike hollihan at June 17, 2005 02:56 PMAny word on other candidates in this special election, either democrat or republican? I check the TN Sec. of State website to see if they had any listed, but nothing. Any help? I also know that HD87 is having a special election... any word on that? Posted by: JL at June 18, 2005 07:50 PMIf the people of district 29, don't seem to care, then what can we do? It would be wonderful if people were intelligent enough to think things through. But sadly, most voters prefer to keep the Fords in office, looking the other way at all wrong doings. Posted by: BoyInTheDesignerBubble at June 22, 2005 03:45 PMPost a comment
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Ophelia Ford, sister of disgraced former state Sen. John Ford, who was videotaped taking cash bribes from undercover FBI agents in a corruption sting, says 