TN SC: ok for parties to meet in secret to remove candidates they don’t want on ballot

Sounds an awful lot like the mullahs having to pre-approve candidates in Iran.

You don’t even need a date on your ballot to vote in PA since this afternoon.

Is this their idea of free and fair elections? No rules whatsoever?

Exactly why we need more than 2 shitty parties.

I would be okay with this if the parties paid for their primaries.

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TN SC: ok for parties to meet in secret to remove candidates they don’t want on ballot

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Weird story in its lack of detail. Yes, it is okay for a party to determine bona fides of its representatives. Otherwise Dems would fund birddogs like David Duke. But this seems a case of the candidate not meeting residency requirements?

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There’s no backstory

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He did not fulfill a bylaw requirement mandating that candidates vote in three of the past four Republican primaries to be eligible to run.

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This defeats democracy

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Do you know what birddogging does?

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Do you know what birddogging does?

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I do. It’s the reason Charlemagne was coronated. Welcome to medieval times.

This tweet is disingenuous at best.

The law is to ensure that folks who run for a particular office are actual residents of that area and not just moving into a district so they can be elected.

I’m sure it can possibly be abused, but TN wants representation from actual residents…not carpetbaggers.

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I do. It’s the reason Charlemagne was coronated

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Birddogging is the insertion of a false player into a political equation to disadvantage a supposed ally or allied group/party.

Due to left-wing narrative-focused "news" coverage, the right is more vulnerable to birddogging. E.g., David Duke inserted into one GOP primary would be used to intimate racism against all GOP candidates. If Bill Ayers got inserted on a democrat ballot somewhere, you'd never see equation targeting Dems as terrorists in general.