On November 19, Citizens Action filed a lawsuit in the West Virginia Supreme Court, hoping to get a ruling that the state must hold a special gubernatorial election in the first half of 2011. Joe Manchin resigned from being Governor recently because he had been elected in the middle of his 4-year term to the U.S. Senate. The State Constitution requires a special election when the governorship becomes empty when there is at least one year to go in the term. But it doesn’t say when the special election should be. See this story.
Although the story mentions that the Republican Party backs this lawsuit, Citizens Action is more closely associated with the Mountain Party than it is with conservative groups. If there is no special election, the President of the State Senate will serve as acting Governor until the end of 2012.
Legislative bodies — candidates/incumbents should have rank order lists for replacements.
Executive/judicial – have temporary officer replacements / appointments until regular elections.
i.e. NO more highly costly special elections — generally with LOW LOW voter turnouts.
Yes! I agree with Demo Rep, and hopefully that is the new trend.
It’s barely 6 am (0600 hours) on Normandy Beach, June 6th, 1944 and the after 15 minutes (15 years=15 minutes) the bodies and body parts are piling higher and higher.
At current pace, it will be more than 150,000 years in the future before our glorious victory in “Battle of the Bulge”!
Today alone, there will probably be more than 2500 casualties. We are in confusion and disarray, and our numbers are being rapidly diminished.
I am with the USA Central California;
http://www.usparliament.org/ss11-6.htm
We welcome your name ASAP. Just email or call me, we have many positions that are opening up all the time.
Need not be from our “landing craft” to party-icipate.
Best,
MMP James Ogle [Free Parliamentary]
(MMP=member of mini-state parliament)
joogle@GoNott.com or 415-686-1996
This is just more “order out of chaos” problem-reaction-solution Hegelian dialectic:
“Beckley Mayor Emmett Pugh said the state should follow the law, but no one has agreed to what the law is.
Although there have been different interpretations, earlier this summer the gubernatorial succession laws were explained by attorneys from the House and Senate and a West Virginia University law professor…”