He should’a said he was from Park City
DeMartino’s candidacy for Rep. District 14 denied
Republican’s residency called into question; calls issue party politics
June 14, 2016
Republican candidate James DeMartino’s candidacy for the 14th Representative District has been put on hold while the state’s Department of Elections decides if he meets the 3-year residency requirement.
Republican James DeMartino has been denied his 14th Representative District candidacy and he’s accusing Sussex County election officials of playing party favorites.
“Just another Democrat tactic to prevent qualified candidates from challenging the Speaker of the House Representative Pete Schwartzkopf,” stated DeMartino in a prepared statement June 12. “Democrats know the speaker is vulnerable this election cycle, and they will do all they can to prevent Schwartzkopf from losing his seat. It doesn’t matter to them that they’re denying the constitutional right of a citizen to pursue public office. It’s not about the law and justice, it’s about control.”
I find it somewhat ironic that the DOE is checking into when he last voted in DC.
I mean, correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t it already established that McGuiness VOTED in Utah during a time that, were she a Utah resident, she wouldn’t meet the Delaware residency requirement for a candidate?
I’m sorry. Don’t tell me that Schwartzkopf isn’t involved in this. You can bet he is.
A Republican lawyer was working in the Tommy Bahama outlet?
FOPS (friends of Pete Schwartzkopf) and EOPS (enemies of Pete Schwartzkopf) getting different treatment? Shocking.
Here’s where Charlie Copeland’s GOP could do us all a real service and sue the DOE over this. They should have to explain how someone who voted as an R in Park City recently gets a pass while this guy does not. Certainly the Dems don’t care, but they should.
“State Election Commissioner Elaine Manlove said June 13 she was familiar with the situation. She said 99 percent of the time a driver’s license or voter registration work to prove a potential candidate’s residency.”
This is what gets me. These are the very 2 documents that K McG had in Utah for the period of time she lived there! You cannot be a resident of 2 states at once. It looks like Kathy took advantage of the motor-voter process and when she got her Utah DL, was able to register to vote without signing a legally binding statement that she was rescinding her residency in another state to register to vote in Utah. I looked this up in Jan., and if you don’t get a DL and just want to register to vote in Utah, you have to sign a sworn statement that you are a resident of the state, but the motor-voter process does not require that. That’s the loophole she used so as not to be “caught.” And of course, she said she had to get a new DL because she “lost” her DE one. Yeah, right.
Right, because if KM got away with it, lets just throw the law out.
I guess it is a little easier to squirm through loopholes when the speaker wants you in the race. I agree with Cassandra, Copeland should sue. The DOE is transparently acting as an agent of the speaker. And if people lose confidence in the objectivity of that department, we’ve lost much more than a mere senate seat.
I’m tempted to call out Mitch Crane for his cavalier assessment that the DOE is “impartial” in a letter to the Cape Gazette, but he clearly just acting as Pete’s mouthpiece on this, so what’s the point?
If you read the article, DeMartino’s didn’t get his drivers license until 2014. The question is, is that the legally defined hard date for residency? A pay stub and mail forwarding is hardly declaring residency.
It has been submitted to the AGs office for clarification. Is that the right thing to do? Or is that part of the conspiracy to keep Kathy in the race so she can lose in a field of what? dozens of primary candidates?