The California Secretary of State’s office says Larry Elder is not on the ballot for the September 14, 2021 gubernatorial election because he did not completely furnish his federal income tax returns. It is possible that Elder will sue.
The California Secretary of State’s office says Larry Elder is not on the ballot for the September 14, 2021 gubernatorial election because he did not completely furnish his federal income tax returns. It is possible that Elder will sue.
Larry Elder should sue. This is a really stupid requirement to have to show income tax returns to be able to run for Governor. This should be an unconstitutional requirement. He is an attorney, so he should be able to represent himself well.
He should absolutely sue. Tax returns are supposed to be private and secret, except for the taxpayer, revenue agents strictly limited to their official duties in processing the return, law enforcement with court order, and anyone the taxpayer voluntarily discloses them to. If the taxpayer is a political candidate or official he or she may choose to disclose then publicly, but that’s a lot different than any level of government making doing so mandatory to appear on the ballot.
More the the point, California Elections Code 8902(a) refers to a “direct primary election ballot.” By its plain text, it does not apply to a recall election, which is in a different division of the Election Code (Division 11, not Division 8). A co-author of the law already publicly admitted he “didn’t contemplate” that the law would apply to a recall, but at the same time said he intended it to apply to a recall, which is a strange set of beliefs to hold at once. https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-taxes/
There is a lot of illegal corruption in how Marxist Democrats are running this election, which they didn’t want. They don’t account for shortened time period for signatures in lieu of filing fees, and now they are violating the law by misapplying the reporting requirement of a primary election, which is itself unconstitutional, to an election which is obviously not a primary. What other banana republic (not the clothing store) tactics will they use next?
They must be stopped. Marxism is not OK. RECALL, IMPEACH, REMOVE ETC ALL DEMOCRATS…YESTERDAY!!
Larry Elder is a dumbASS for not reading all the requirements to be on the ballot. Boo-hoo! Now, some people are complaining about it and want to change the rules and make him an exception. Tough shit Larry. you missed the boat. ROT IN HELL! I think what happened to him is funny as hell and his fault.
CA Const – spacing aded
V-2 The Governor shall be elected every fourth year at the same time and places as members of the Assembly and hold office from the Monday after January 1 following the election until a successor qualifies.
The Governor shall be an elector who has been a citizen of the United States and a resident of this State for 5 years immediately preceding the Governor’s election.
The Governor may not hold other public office.
No Governor may serve more than 2 terms.
(Sec. 2 amended Nov. 6, 1990, by Prop. 140. Initiative measure.)
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Inform LE and his lawyers.
Bull, bdu. There is no such rule. The only rule applies to primaries. A recall is not a primary. The rule that applies to primaries violates bigger and more important rules regarding financial privacy, equal right to run for office, government records privacy, ETC ETC.
BDU, did you have a previous bad experience with LE?
I wouldn’t be surprised if a few other candidates joined in such a potential lawsuit. I’m all for measures to try and reduce corruption, but requiring a candidate to furnish income tax documents is at best a flawed method, and at worst does indeed seem to violate Constitutional rights, especially in this case where five years (!) of tax documents are required. The fundamental right to participate in the electoral process ought not be and is not conditioned on whether a person makes enough money to have to file income taxes. And a lot can happen to a person’s finances in five years.
Felix is either just a plain troll or a wingnut troll. Please tell me which.
Felix sounds very intelligent.
DEADLINE day for making ballots ???
NOOOO case if late to act.
Andy Gonzalez’s solution to everything is to sue.
Sarcastic fruit fly is the wing nut troll. Tell me what you think I got wrong and why. Otherwise your just trolling and name calling like the mental child and or paid Marxist propaganda shill that you actually are.
Earl, thank you.
Joshua, is mostly correct, but I would add that it doesn’t matter why someone may not want their finances made public as a condition for seeking office. Maybe they make a lot of money, maybe very little or none, maybe it went up or down or both. Or they could be a regular blue collar or middle class person whose finances are completely boring but they just plain and simple don’t think it’s any of your business. Well, guess what, it’s not.
If I was to run for office, which I doubt would ever happen, it’s none of your business which one of these I am. And lots of people don’t care. If not knowing, is the only reason you wouldn’t vote for me…well guess what, I don’t vote your vote. Maybe that’s why I wouldn’t make a good political candidate.
Walrus, I would say sue too, but the courts are just as corrupt if not even more. Maybe it’s time to water the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants again. Or maybe we can still vote , recall and impeach all the commies. If it’s not too late for that already it will be in 2 to 4 years tops IMO.
They’re afraid of Larry Elder. I predict he is on the ballot, and I think he stands a good chance of winning.
I hope ur right
I have no sympathy for those candidates that screw up because they don’t read the rules and requirements to obtain ballot access. Before the closing date, I even read them and saw tax returns needed to be filed to be on the ballot. When you are a candidate (I have been) you got to dot your i’s and cross your t’s right.
U read it? Where exactly? If it was govt web of lies u read lies. The law they wrongly cited only applies to primaries NOT RECALLS! A RECALL IS NOT A PRIMARY! And as mention above even the “rule” about primary goes against other MORE IMPORTANT rules up to and including STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTION. what do U call it when gov breax its own RULES???
PLUS they LIED and BROKE THE LAW by not adjusting signatures in lieu of filing FEES for shorter collection time. They do NOT NOT NOT have the authority to override the LAW and the CONSTITUTION by LYING on a web sight!!! And that’s just what I’ve learn about so far! What’s NEXT??
When the gov LIES AND CHEATS ABOUT WHAT THE TS AND IS ARE AND CROSSES THERE IS AND DOTS THERE TS INSTEAD OF DOING IT THE RITE WAY it is NOT the FAULT or OBLIGATION of those who want to run to follow ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL web sight COMMIE GOV LIES !!!
NOW AS FOR NO SYMPATHY I HAVE NO SYMPATHY?! FOR commie gov MISCREANTS who get caught VIOLATING the LAW’S and CONSTITUTION and GET WHAT’S COMING TO THEM FOR THEIR TRESPASSES AGAINST WE THE PEOPLE for so doing!!!
What if they said only DEMOCRATS AND LEFTIST could have their votes certified? What if they put on their web sight that STRAIGHT YT MEN are no longer eligible to vote? What if they said CONSERVATIVE BLACKS are not eligible? What if they said you can only run with a arm and a leg tied behind you back on their LYING WEB SIGHT!! IS THAT NEXT?? THIS IS THE SAME TYPE VIOLATION!!
DO U KNOW WHAT THE CONSTITUTIONAL REMEDY IS WHEN BIAS CORRUPT BUREAUCRATS AND COURTS CONSPIRE TO BRAKE THE LAWS AND VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION?! PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMO CUZ BOY THEY DONE LIED AND CHEATS ENUFF ALREADY so it’s time 2 REMOVE, RECALL , IMPEACH, VOTE OUT and if that don’t work there’s some OTHER crosses and DOTS waiting on them!!!
Larry must be who the Democrat Party fears and thus the only choice for Governor. So many dishonest and unlawful games the Dems play. The Democrat Party shows us over and over again how they don’t like “uppity Blacks” from thinking different than what they’ve been told to think on the Democrat plantations. A similar situation happened last year with an absolutely well-qualified young man who escaped from Los Angeles Ghetto while helping his younger siblings escape too. Worked hard, paid his own way through college and helped his siblings. At 27, he wanted to run for the school board and the Secretary of State (Becerra at that time) knew he was Black and made sure he could not raise the money needed to win the election – along with all of the other elections games against other free-thinking candidates.
The personal income tax should be abolished. It’s a massive invasion of privacy.
And, with rules like this, it diminishes the number of potential candidates who might want to run for office. Why run for an office you might not win, if you have to reveal so much private information?
Remember when Howard Stern withdrew from running for Governor of New York because he didn’t want to reveal his personal financial information? He would have been a great candidate.