An earliest post said that the Oregon Republican primary on May 20 had no candidate listed on the ballot for Attorney General, and that write-in votes would determine the Republican nominee. It appears now that the person who got the most write-ins in that primary was the Democratic nominee, John Kroger. Kroger will accept the Republican nomination, and thus block the Republican Party state committee from choosing someone to fill the vacancy.
And so the guy Kroger is now officially a “Republican.” So, from the GOP perspective how can they be displeased by this development?
This is too delightful to be true! This is better than the Onion. Let us hope that this presages the withering away of the Republican Party and that a new left wing of the Democratic Party will begin to finally redress the woeful stranglehold of a few corporations over most aspects of our lives. Peace–and Justice!
Query; Have any of the alternate parties filed or plan
to run a candidate for Attorney General this year?
Oregon law requires that a declared candidate for a major party nomination be a member of that party, and that his declaration state that he will not accept the nomination of any other party.
While Oregon law permits a non-member of a party to be nominated as a write-in, it also requires a write-in nominee to formally accept the nomination.
So Kroger can’t accept the Republican nomination.
I suppose he could claim that he didn’t read the legal mumbo jumbo of his declaration of candidacy, or that the law doesn’t apply to his personal political ambitions, but I’m not sure that is the sort of public stance that a prospective Attorney General would want to take.