Dingus Denied
This just came across the RSS feeds out of the Waco Tribune:
A federal judge in Waco ruled Wednesday that a Midland City Council member is ineligible to challenge Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick for his District 82 seat because he didn't resign his city council seat before filing for the Legislature.U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Texas Democratic Party against the Republican Party of Texas in a court challenge over Bill Dingus' eligibility to challenge Craddick.
In a 19-page opinion and order in the lawsuit, which was filed in Midland in January but transferred to Smith's court, Smith ruled that Dingus should have resigned his council seat before he filed to run for the District 82 House seat.
Because he did not, he is ineligible to run against Craddick, the judge ruled, citing Article 3, Section 19 of the Texas Constitution.
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Anyone seen any missing comments under the sofa cushions around here? We seem to have lost some.
Per the article in today's paper (and online here,) it seems Mr. Dingus intends to continue, even if he has to resign his council seat.
Does anyone know would happen to his open seat during 2008?
It would be filled by one of the oilheads.
I have dropped the Ban Hammer on Ralph W..or anything that comes from his IP.
His dissent remains mercifully un-crushed, however, because he still has his own blog.
He must have forgotten his own password, or something.
Nat, you always have reasons for your actions, although I've had to furrow my brow once or twice, but I don't really get your animus against Ralph. I mean, there's nothing there. Not even the silliness of a projectile-vomiting platitudinous anger-projecting pink.
Just...nothing.
Ralph is our oldest living site troll. If he were not banned here his only claim to fame would be that he was the guy that caused the city to write an ordinance that prohibited the keeping of more than 30 cats in any residence inside the city limits.
Believe me, what little self-worth he has comes from his perceived "martyrdom" at our hands and I just can't bring myself to take that away from him.
Great insight. Reilveed I'm on the same side as you.
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Well, look at it this way, Bill: That judge saved you a lot of wasted time and money.