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The party of entitlement may not be an exaggeration...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday paved way for U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, a fellow Democrat, to simultaneously run for both U.S. Senate and the presidency in 2020.

The governor signed a bill that many now call “Cory’s Law” that allows any member of the U.S. House or Senate from New Jersey to run for those offices in addition to pursuing the White House.

wow, Hillary's tone-deafness is contagious...as a Republican I would like to thank the Democrats for the slow pitch. Anyone else wondering what the heck is in the New Jersey drinking water?

maybe its worth noting that Spartacus eventually lost.

subgenius wrote:The party of entitlement may not be an exaggeration...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday paved way for U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, a fellow Democrat, to simultaneously run for both U.S. Senate and the presidency in 2020.

The governor signed a bill that many now call “Cory’s Law” that allows any member of the U.S. House or Senate from New Jersey to run for those offices in addition to pursuing the White House.

wow, Hillary's tone-deafness is contagious...as a Republican I would like to thank the Democrats for the slow pitch. Anyone else wondering what the heck is in the New Jersey drinking water?

maybe its worth noting that Spartacus eventually lost.

Republicans and their idiot apologists like you don't get to use the word entitlement after electing the most entitled man ever to step foot in office.

I can't imagine the cost of running two campaigns at once. Also, holy campaign finance laws. The shifting of money back and forth would have to be pro-levels of shady.

- Doc

Kevin Graham wrote:Republicans and their idiot apologists like you don't get to use the word entitlement after electing the most entitled man ever to step foot in office.

it seems like that would allow us to use the word entitlement... like how it allows you guys to self-hate for being white and employed.

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:I can't imagine the cost of running two campaigns at once. Also, holy campaign finance laws. The shifting of money back and forth would have to be pro-levels of shady.

- Doc

Marco Rubio did it just last election. The presidential campaign kinda functions as the Senate campaign.

EAllusion wrote:

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:I can't imagine the cost of running two campaigns at once. Also, holy campaign finance laws. The shifting of money back and forth would have to be pro-levels of shady.

- Doc

Marco Rubio did it just last election. The presidential campaign kinda functions as the Senate campaign.

No he didn't because Florida law prohibits it...and im pretty sure his campaign in South Carolina and Nevada was sans Senate...maybe that's how he lost primary in Florida?

Either way he didn't announce senate bid until after he dropped out from President bid.

subgenius wrote:The party of entitlement may not be an exaggeration...

If this was a Republican running, would you launch a defense of this practice rather than attacking it? Remember, only an honest answer can bring back the antebellum South.

Moksha,

Serious question. Were you the love child between your mother and folksy SL Tribune columnist Robert Kirby?

- Doc

No he didn't because Florida law prohibits it...and im pretty sure his campaign in South Carolina and Nevada was sans Senate...maybe that's how he lost primary in Florida?

Either way he didn't announce senate bid until after he dropped out from President bid.

This is right. The primary for Senate in Florida is way after the presidential primary, so he was only unofficially running as a Senate candidate while running as a Presidential candidate. He was on the ballot in Florida for President, but that was in the spring whereas the Senate primary wasn't until Aug 30th.

I have no problem with dual candidacy either way. A party can put a person on the ballot for every single office for all I care. What matters to me is not being able to fill multiple offices at the same time.

EAllusion wrote:
This is right. The primary for Senate in Florida is way after the presidential primary, so he was only unofficially running as a Senate candidate while running as a Presidential candidate. He was on the ballot in Florida for President, but that was in the spring whereas the Senate primary wasn't until Aug 30th.

I have no problem with dual candidacy either way. A party can put a person on the ballot for every single office for all I care. What matters to me is not being able to fill multiple offices at the same time.

Not even "unofficially" because he made several public statements for "not seeking Senate". It was only after his defeat for President and the Orlando shootings that he changed his mind and just made filing deadline...with much criticism for his reversal from what was a staunch, albeit politically typical, position of "not running".

But in theory i agree that a person should run for whatever they want and can run for...but i also am unfamiliar with the reasoning behind a law, like Florida's, that says a person can only appear once on a ballot.... i guess there is an odd problem if you won your state's senate seat and also won President....meh, either way Cory is a chump and should have an embarrassing election run.