Reader poll: How will the Kristof case come out?
It's less than 12 hours before the #Oregon Supreme Court tells us whether @NickKristof can run for governor or is disqualified because he hasn't lived in the state for three years. How will it come out? (Not necessarily how you think it should, but what will the justices do?)
— Jack Bogdanski (@bojack54) February 17, 2022
I mean on the logic that the state mostly exists to draw keep in rigid roots private property rights & Kristof owns property here, letting him run wouldn't be all that shocking just on those grounds?
ReplyDeleteDon't care/don't vote, but we've been thru this before in the UK appealing to arcane & legalistic reasons to prevent Brexit (which itself is no prize).
This all said, by hook or by crook, depending when/how/if the republicans get withdrawal of the candidate at the last minute & can throw their weight / organize behind Betsy Johnson as good strategy knowing their unlikely to win with an R-branded candidate, that's the smart-money option, whether the Oregon Supreme Court hands the ball to them to run with or they use Kristof as free advertising & he self-cancels & sez 'go for Johnson' (effectively/tacitly or explicitly? IDK which strategy is better for the R Phil Knight/similar 'smart money')
& for that matter, parachuting in candidates like Gianforte, Sheriff Joe (some masshole cowboy A-hole) & the lady that ran against Gordon Smith in 1996? is nothing new?
& the snake / dynastic Kate Brown is related to Jerry & Pat Brown...those CA political dynasty snakes.
Kristof's got no answers either it seems, bourgeois quadrennial spectacle notwithstanding & there being 'cheating' (moving the goal posts at best anyway?) in all elections w/none coming down to 1 vote hardly ever legit, if people are dumb enough to vote for him, let him be on the ballot as an R if he wants, who care?
I mean, I'm also anti-NYT columnist by and large & money/politicians being bought too cheap (but they all got a price, don't kid yourself?), so I don't really care what the name on the face card is?