Arizona Government Defends Decision Not to Hold a Special U.S. Senate Election to Fill McCain Seat Until 2020

On January 11, attorneys for the Arizona state government filed this brief in Tedards v Ducey, 2:18cv-4241. The issue is whether the state should hold a special election to fill Senator John McCain’s seat earlier than November 2020. McCain died in August 2018. The state says it has three interests in not holding a special election in 2019: (1) to save taxpayer money; (2) a special election would have low turnout; (3) there wouldn’t be much time for a candidate to raise money for a campaign, so having a special election would favor wealthy candidates.


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Arizona Government Defends Decision Not to Hold a Special U.S. Senate Election to Fill McCain Seat Until 2020 — 26 Comments

  1. Congress has time, place, manner authority over congressiional elections. They exercised this authority when Senators were elected by the legislatures prior to the 17th Amendment.

    But for the 17th Amendment, Arizona would elect a replacement for McCain when the legislature convenes on the 14th.

  2. How many Congress laws about USA Rep and USA Senate VACANCIES ???

    How many FATAL defects in the late DARK AGE 1787 USA Const regarding —

    BASIC elections stuff ???
    Separation of Powers ???

    The New Age HACKS know how to exploit ALL such FATAL Defects to get/keep POWER.

    PR and AppV – pending Condorcet.

  3. IN 2016, 31.1 PERCENT OF THE VOTERS ELECTED 218 R USA REPS OF 435 TOTAL.

    IN 2012-2014-2016, 16.7 PERCENT OF THE VOTERS ELECTED 50 R USA SENATORS OF 100 TOTAL.

    IN 2016, 26.1 PERCENT OF THE VOTERS ELECTED R PREZ TRUMP/ VP Pence — 272 of 538 EC votes in 28 of 50 States [total 306 in 30 States + ME CD2]

    TOTAL ignorance by ALL the usual suspect math MORONS in the brain dead media.
    —–
    NONSTOP GERRYMANDER MINORITY RULE STATE/LOCAL REGIMES SINCE 1776 AND THE GERRYMANDER MINORITY RULE U.S.A. REGIME SINCE 1789.
    —-
    ALL 99 houses in the 50 State legislatures are mini-copies of the minority rule USA H Reps.

    Folks can work on 2018 USA regime update – or wait for Clerk stats and later FEC stats.

  4. About as good as having a lottery for full regular terms ???

    John/Mary Q. Citizen –

    You have won the Lottery to be a LAW MAKER —

    do NOT take bribes or make threats

    — being declared an Enemy of the People and suffer a penalty of DEATH by hanging in public.

  5. The rules of the GOP in Arizona require US Citizenship to be a member elector of the Republican Party. If John McCain III was not a member of the Republican Party of
    Arizona, because he was not a citizen of the United States when he served in the United States Senate than the appointment should fail.

    This goes back to 1933 in TJ at Caesar’s Bar, when the
    couple of John McCain Jr. and Roberta Wright have a bogus wedding event, just like Ike and Tina Turner year
    later. Yes McCain III parents were not married and he was born in a hospital in the Republic of Panama out of
    wedlock. The mother of McCain III was a US Citizen that
    could not pass that Citizenship to her son because she was not employed at his birth by either the United States
    Government or the Panama Railroad Company (or its successor in title). At birth John S. McCain III was a
    Citizen of the Republic of Panama and had that citizenship his whole life.

    While the US Senate would not deal with John S. McCain III lack of US Citizenship other than by resolution
    of just the US Senate only that he was a citizen for internal senate issues, that should or would have no effect of the court in Arizona, because it was not a Joint
    Resolution of Naturalization.

    Mark Seidenberg
    Vice Chairman
    American Independent Party of California

  6. A person holding a position in a segregationist party who preys on voters’ confusion to boost their registration numbers now throws out a conspiracy theory about what happened nearly a century ago. I hated McCain but this is absurd.

  7. Brandon Lyon,

    The American Independent Party in not now or ever was a “segregationist party”. The party was formed in 1967
    In Bakersfield, CA in 1967. In the beginning there were some electors in the party that supported segregation, but that was not part of the party’s platform. Our 1968
    Presidential candidate was Governor George C. Wallace
    of Alabama who supported segregation and our Vice Presidential candidates was General Curtis LeMay who
    opposited segregation. Segregation was not the issue of
    1968.

    I have never “preyed” on confusion of a voter. The AIP
    as received votes in California over 4,300,000 for office
    was a registration well over 500,000.

  8. “Segregation was not the issue of 1968.” If you believe that, we must live in 2 different universes

  9. Brian Lyon,

    The issue of segregation was a party plank issue twenty years earlier, viz., 1948 with a Democrat Party by the name States Rights Democratic Party. That is not the
    AIP. You poll is off in the LA Times. The AIP is not a deceptive name. We have been a party for 52 years
    and going strong with electors.

    Again the AIP hias never had a plank on segregation.
    You should retract you statement in your first post.

  10. @BL,

    The LA Times hired a Republican and Democrat pollster to devise a poll that was intended to supplement the Times editorial position. It was essentially a push poll. The article interviewed numerous celebrities to support the poll results.

  11. Nation-State STATUS via Fathers.

    NO such thing as dual citizen-ships.

    14-1 *subject to the jurisdiction* — STATUS stuff.

    IE ALL kids of ALL foreign [nation-state] fathers are NOT USA Citizens – since such foreign nation-state fathers do NOT have *allegiance* to the USA Const.

    Stone Age/Dark Age stuff had advanced by 1776.

    See [nation-state] *allegiance* in last para of 1776 DOI —

    IE adult Brit folks in new 4 July 1776 nation-States who became *loyal* [had *allegiance*] to such new nation-States became the new State citizens.

    Other added State citizens via 1776-1789 State naturalization laws.

    All sorts of loyalty oaths and purges of Brits in 1776-1783.

    *natural born* citizen-kid = AT BIRTH allegiance to a regime via Father —

    place of birth means ZERO.

    Esp all the new foreign father kids physically born in USA areas via INVASION / ILLEGAL-in-USA mothers.

    Way too many MORONS to count- esp SCOTUS super-HACK MORONS.

    See multiple foreign invasions of Western Roman Empire from about 180 AD to its total collapse in 476 AD.

    New AGE RED communist Donkeys LOVE illegal invaders — soon to be more RED communist Donkeys.

    How many parts of CA, TX, Fl, GA, NY, etc. de facto controlled by ILLEGAL invaders ???

  12. Demo Rep- Can you name the current members of congress who hold dual citizenship? There are surprisingly quite a few.

  13. CO-

    Esp how many dual USA / Russia, China, Iran, etc. — ie ENEMY regimes.

    What if there is a W-A-R between the dual regimes ??

    Do the dual hacks kill themselves – to avoid treason charges ???

  14. Not even close. All the dual citizenship holders that I am aware of are Israeli and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz was dual U.S.- Canadian but he finally renounced his Canadian citizenship.

  15. @CO,

    The US does not recognize dual citizenship.

    Some US citizens have brown eyes, others have blue eyes. Some may have legal citizenhip in another country. Some are members of the Rotary Club. All is irrelevant to their US citizenship.

    Can you name the current members of Congress who have blue eyes? There are surprisingly quite a few.

  16. @MS,

    Did JM, Jr. sneak Roberta Wright into the single officers quarters at the naval base in Panama.

    By the way JM III was born on the naval base. Your claim is based on misinterpretation of certain documents.

  17. JR —

    LOTS OF ACTUAL/WANNABEE BLUE-EYED KILLERS IN DEVIL CITY

    — DERIVED FROM OLDE BARBARIAN TRIBES IN EUROPE/ASIA ???

  18. Jim Riley,

    John McCain III was born at the Colon Hospital in the
    Republic of Panama in 1936. His own Senatorial website gave that birth place. However, he claimed that
    that hospital was in the Canal Zone. It was on the island
    Colon outsiders of the area covered in the Canal Zone.

    Just because McCain stated the hospital was in the Canal Zone, does not make it true.

    Roberta Wright gave birth to him out of wedlock in Panama. She therefore could not pass citizenship on to her son.

    Also no Common Law Marriage in Panama. JM Jr.
    already had one out of wedlock daughter with Roberta Wright born in Hawaii before she followed him to Panama.

    John McCain Jr. did not live in a single officers quarters in Panama. He lived with Roberta Wright with one child
    born in Hawaii. McCain and Wright were just not married at the time of the birth. Baja California does not have Common Law marriage either, like California, Hawai’i, and Panama.

    Because there was no marriage, John McCain Jr. could
    not pass on his citizenship to John McCain III who was born out of wedlock in Panama in 1936.

  19. NO DNA tests [of fatherhood] until 1980s ???

    Place of birth means ZERO.

    If the highly pregnant wife of a top USA male USA citizen HACK has a birth in a foreign land or a foreign ship on the high seas, then the kid is a USA citizen

    — pending those New Age DNA tests – perhaps showing the mother was scandalous.

    DNA tests done on the McCain cast of characters, alive or dead ???

  20. @MS,

    Colon Hospital was located in the Canal Zone. Its location was moved in 1957 to keep it in the canal zone after a treaty adjusted the boundaries of the Canal Zone. There is a birth announcement for JM III, that says he was born at the US Naval base hospital at Coco Solo. His birth certificate says he was legitimate.

    Is Roberta Wright fraudulently collecting a widow’s pension for a 4 star Admiral?

  21. Jim Riley,

    Colon Hospital was on the island Colon, Republic of Panama. It was never included in the Canal Zone.

    However all of Panama at the time of the birth of JSM III
    In 1936 was within the Jurisdiction of the United States, but outside of the Territory of the United States. Therefore the 1855 Collective Naturalization Act could not apply to the Republic of Panama, because Colon Hospital had to be both outside the United States and the Jurisdiction of the United States. It was outside the United States and not it’s jurisdiction.

  22. As to the issue of fraudulently a widows pension. That would require the question of what happened after both
    John McCain Jr. and Roberta Wright left Panama. In 2008, the AIP only checked the status until John McCain III turned 18 years of age. We were concerned in his domicile could have changed from his birth place of with
    his morher moving back to the United States. We determined through our lawyers that until he turned 18 years of age John McCain III had the domicile of his birth
    place and could not move with his mother under the laws
    of Panama.

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