{"id":6526,"date":"2014-08-19T00:04:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T07:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2014-08-19T00:04:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T07:04:56","slug":"the-law-doesnt-apply-to-nevada-democrats-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/08\/19\/the-law-doesnt-apply-to-nevada-democrats-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Law Doesn’t Apply to Nevada Democrats, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

     In 2012, the Democrats ran a candidate for Assembly who didn’t live in the district, according to a judge’s ruling<\/a>.\u00a0 That is illegal.\u00a0 Despite this, Assemblyf\u00fchrerin Kirkpatrick decided to ignore that and seat<\/a> that illegally elected candidate regardless.<\/p>\n

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     Now, it looks like they may very well be willing to do so again<\/a>.\u00a0 Assembly candidate Meghan Smith “has decided to run in a district that she, too, wasn\u2019t legally a proper resident of at the time of filing.”\u00a0 If true, then the precedent set in 2012 will have far more immediate consequences then most believed.<\/p>\n

     A similar situation in 2014 is claimed to be happening right now.<\/p>\n

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“‘We have credible evidence that leads us to believe Meghan Smith did not live in Assembly District 34 for the legally mandated 30 days before filing to run for the seat,’ maintains GOP operative Nick Phillips in a complaint filed with the Nevada Secretary of State.<\/p>\n

“‘We have noticed that it is not possible for Ms. Smith to have actually lived in her new address and within Assembly District 34 by the deadline as she did not actually own that property at that time.'”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     We all know how this will end.<\/p>\n

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     In 2012, the Democrats ran a candidate for Assembly who didn’t live in the district, according to a judge’s ruling.\u00a0 That is illegal.\u00a0 Despite this, Assemblyf\u00fchrerin Kirkpatrick decided to ignore that and seat that illegally elected candidate regardless.      Now, it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[15,27],"class_list":["post-6526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-progressives","tag-democrats","tag-nevada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6526"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6560,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions\/6560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}