New York will not hold a special election to fill the vacant U.S. House seat, 29th district, according to this story. The incumbent resigned from Congress on March 8, 2010. The state says it doesn’t want to spend $750,000, which is what a special election would cost.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
What price to have a fictional appearance of Democracy in the ANTI-Democracy gerrymander U.S.A. House of Reps ???
Half the votes in half the gerrymander districts (political concentration camps) = about 25-30 percent ANTI-Democracy minority rule.
P.R. and A.V.
Have each candidate/incumbent have a rank order list of replacements during an election / term of office.
Legislative body fills any vacancy if there is no such list.
‘ “We have some serious concerns about the financial impact that a special election could have on the county level, especially because those counties are facing the same fiscal crisis that the state is facing,” Maggie McKeon said in an e-mail to Gannett News Service. ‘
How about spending some of that stimulus loot on an election? I bet the Republicans don’t sue for an election.
They could be looking to run someone who has also showered with Rahm “Dead Fish” Emanuel.
When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.
Art. I, Sec. 2, para. 4 of the nearly DEAD U.S.A. Constitution — i.e. one more *shall* being ignored in the alleged Supreme LAW of the U.S.A. (Art. VI, para. 2) by a whole lot of public folks who allegedly have taken an oath to support/defend such Constitution (Art. VI, para. 3).