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Posted: 08.02.2002 Who has the last laugh now?
Remember the Queen of the Bad Cosmetics Katherine Harris -- the Florida Secretary of State who helped her ol' buddy W. win the election? Well turns out Ms. Versed in Election Law wasn't so well-read when it came to her own national bid.
"The secretary of state admitted she failed to read the elections law, which requires her to step down to seek a federal office. Harris said she made a mistake when she qualified to run for Congress last month by failing to submit a letter of resignation required of all state officeholders seeking federal office. State law requires all state officials to submit a resignation letter when they qualify to run for federal office. Otherwise they face 'an automatic irrevocable resignation, effective immediately, from the office he or she presently holds'. She said she didn't think the law applied to her because Florida's elected secretary of state post is being abolished in January." Katherine Harris back-dated her resignation by two weeks because she qualified to run for Congress on July 15th. Now the legality of everything done by the Florida Secretary of State's office during the last two weeks is being called into question -- because technically by the back-dated resignation, we've been acting without a Secretary of State during that two week period. Not only is this opening a pandora's box of legal fury regarding the Secretary of State's office, her opponent in the Congressional race is also discussing the option of a potential lawsuit over Harris' ability to run now, since she failed to follow legal guidelines in announcing her candidacy. "This is beyond egg on your face," said Richard Scher, a political science professor at the University of Florida. "This is just plain dumb." Excuse me whilst I pick myself up off the floor in heaps of laughter. (Read the full article at the St. Petersburg Times.)  That was my reaction when I read it in the Sentinel....she not only LOOKS like a clown... ¤ ¤ credit: Solonor | 08.02.02 at 06:24 PM | link- -this ¤ ¤ It is our duty as taxpaying citizens to make sure this freakshow gets elected to sit at home and mope. ¤ ¤ credit: Sekimori | 08.02.02 at 06:29 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Oh, the irony. I just about cheered when I heard this on t.v. For someone who was such a "stickler" about rules and regs ... she seems quite at ease breaking them herself. God, she's a severe looking woman, isn't she! ;) ¤ ¤ credit: Kelly | 08.02.02 at 09:06 PM | link--this ¤ ¤What a maroon! Stuff like this makes me wonder what else she's forgotten/ignored/doesn't know. ¤ ¤ credit: ron | 08.03.02 at 08:37 AM | link--this ¤ ¤I laughed my ass off at DisneyWorld when I saw on the news that she was in hot water again. ¤ ¤ credit: jazy | 08.03.02 at 07:11 PM | link--this ¤ ¤That is beautiful. The laws don't really apply to them though. Just like Dick Cheney illegally ran for vice president — he was a resident of Texas, and the president and vice president cannot be from the same state. He can afford to shift his residency from one state to another, so he picked his home in Wyoming... but that's not how residency is supposed to work. You have to have actually lived there to be a resident. You guys have gotta stay on this to make sure it causes her all sorts of problems. Congratulations, though. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving candidate. ¤ ¤ credit: Mike | 08.03.02 at 11:44 PM | link--this ¤ ¤
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