Oregon Catalyst: The Oregon Supreme Court has disqualified top Democrat candidate Nick Kristof for running as a a Democrat candidate in the Primary due to the candidate’s lack of standing as an official Oregon resident. The Court affirms the denial by the Oregon Secretary of State.
OPB reports, “Secretary of State Shemia Fagan said there was a mountain of “objective evidence” showing Kristof considered himself a New York resident until recently. That evidence included Kristof’s decision to vote in New York in 2020. Kristof also had a New York driver’s license that year.But Kristof and his lawyers have argued for months that he grew up in Yamhill, still owns and maintains a farm there and has always considered Oregon his home. They added that the historical point of having a residency requirement in the Oregon constitution was to exclude those who were unfamiliar with the state, and that Fagan gave “no weight to forty years of published writings in which Kristof” claimed Yamhill was his home.”
Willamette Week reports, “The court agreed with Fagan’s determination.“We conclude that ‘resident within,’ when viewed against the legal context that surrounded the Oregon Constitution’s 1857 ratification, is best understood to refer to the legal concept of ‘domicile, which requires the fact of a fixed habitation or abode in a particular place, and an intention to remain there permanently or indefinitely,” the court wrote. “Under that legal concept, a person can have only a single residence at a time.” read more
HA! HA!… faggot
Every state constitution needs a clause where any candidate should live in that state ONLY, for at least X number of years.
Since when have Democrats let legalities get in between them and slaking their thirst for power?
Their corpse of a congressman Ron Linden lives primarily in NYC. So why does that asshole get a pass?
JDHasty it’s not only the dems that are cheating bastards. Liz Cheney is he same bottom slime dems are made of.
I read where her kids go to private school near DC yet she claims to be representing Wyoming.
I thought Oregonians can identify as anything. Now I’m confused.
Governors and senators should be required to have been born in and reside in the state they represent. Call it the anti-carpetbagger law.
Nope, no corruption in the election process.
“Secretary of State Shemia Fagan said there was a mountain of “objective evidence” showing Kristof considered himself a New York resident until recently.”
Now do Ron Wyden.
Now what the heck are the Democrats supposed to do with all thost pre printed ballots?
If he’s such a died-in-the-wool Oregonian, then how the fuck can he justify going to vote in NY?!
Politicians, with no exception, are SCUMBAGS unworthy of the people’s trust.