So I can still run for the legislature

Looks like I could run as a Democrat in District 20 if the Democrats and I would want that, so Pat Powers…keep giving me reasons:

State Rep. Jim Bradford switched to the Republican Party after losing to Democratic state Sen. Theresa Two Bulls in the June 3 primary, and Secretary of State Chris Nelson says nothing in state law bars Bradford from running for the Senate as a Republican.

"If you're asking if it's legal, the answer is 'yes,'" Nelson said. "There's nothing in statute that prohibits it."

Nelson's comments came after Rick Hauffe, executive director of the state Democratic Party, said allowing Bradford to switch parties and run for the state Senate against the person who beat him in the primary would violate the spirit - if not the letter - of the law.

The law reads: "No person shall file a certificate of nomination pursuant to 12-7-1 for an office for which he has been a candidate in the primary election of the same year."

The provisions of 12-7-1 deal with independent candidates, meaning the statute bars a loser in a political party primary from filing for that same office as an independent.

But the law doesn't specifically prohibit the loser of a party from filing as a candidate for another party, Nelson said.

Comments

[Not your usual flying monkey]

You should seriously consider it. Just to make a point about Adelstein and Powers and Knutson and this Bradford guy. You stick to your guns, they do not.

[Steve Sibson]

You can throw Tom Dempster into that mix. I worked the Senate chamber during the last legislative session and found a hand full of Democrats that were more conservative than the GOP leadership of that chamber. But it is the House chamber where the Democrats are lacking a candidate in District 20.