FWIW I do believe that the “Conservative” stance here is the right one, more specifically that it should be the legal policy across every state. There’s no logical justification for a governor having the unilateral right to appoint a successor to an elected office. Off season / special elections are not nearly the logicistical nightmare that they were even 20 years ago.
For every potential Beshear-Massie (read: based) situation, you can have what just happened in SC, where the governor ® replaced Lindsey Graham’s ® seat with… Lindsey Graham’s sister ® because of… reasons.
We need to play by the current rules, not the ones we want to believe are just. Cause there already is the Lindsey Graham situation and they didnt need inspiration to do it.
Fighting back with hands tied behind our back cause we were told “its fair” doesnt look like fighting at all.
FWIW I do believe that the “Conservative” stance here is the right one, more specifically that it should be the legal policy across every state. There’s no logical justification for a governor having the unilateral right to appoint a successor to an elected office. Off season / special elections are not nearly the logicistical nightmare that they were even 20 years ago.
For every potential Beshear-Massie (read: based) situation, you can have what just happened in SC, where the governor ® replaced Lindsey Graham’s ® seat with… Lindsey Graham’s sister ® because of… reasons.
We need to play by the current rules, not the ones we want to believe are just. Cause there already is the Lindsey Graham situation and they didnt need inspiration to do it.
Fighting back with hands tied behind our back cause we were told “its fair” doesnt look like fighting at all.