19-year-old Fmr. Candidate for KS Governor may have just won a State House seat

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

The democrat incumbent who lost should not be allowed to run a write in campaign. He ran a poor campaign and so he lost. If you hate this kid so much, vote for the republican write in candidate. He didn't lose a primary. The democrats did nothing to stop this guy in the primary and so they should accept the consequences.

And you cannot refuse to seat someone over a crime they have not been convicted for. I guess expulsion would be appropriate here. Democrats should be ashamed of themselves and as far as I'm concerned what Frownfelter is doing is downright despicable. It's not okay to break the rules so a republican write in candidate cant win.

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

God I'm just disgusted at all the people here either defending this monster or saying this doesn't matter.  Do you realise how creepy and weird you guys are looking defending this.

I agree, but I also think democracy is important.

Democracy includes the state party making people aware of who they nominated and that they have an alternative.

Party primaries are treated as more sacred than they should be, given how under-attended they usually are.

I dont care how unattended they are. He lost fair and square and a court should step in and order him to cease his write in campaign. Do you think the democrats deserve to be able to bail themselves out by cheating instead of doing the right thing and supporting the GOP candidate who didnt lose their primary.

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

God I'm just disgusted at all the people here either defending this monster or saying this doesn't matter.  Do you realise how creepy and weird you guys are looking defending this.

I agree, but I also think democracy is important.

Democracy includes the state party making people aware of who they nominated and that they have an alternative.

Party primaries are treated as more sacred than they should be, given how under-attended they usually are.

I dont care how unattended they are. He lost fair and square and a court should step in and order him to cease his write in campaign. Do you think the democrats deserve to be able to bail themselves out by cheating instead of doing the right thing and supporting the GOP candidate who didnt lose their primary.

Sore-loser laws evidently aren't a thing in Kansas, so you're literally advocating for judicial lawmaking.

Hopefully the GOP hack attorney general will threaten to press charges if Frowncheater goes forward with this.

Now you're literally advocating for locking somebody up on false charges. Write-in campaigns aren't "cheating," let alone against the law. Get a f**king grip.

My apologies. I really thought there were sore loser laws in this state because the Democratic New Jersey avatar said they need to repeal them and that's why I got so angry. It's my fault for not researching it correctly.

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

He seems to quickly be pivoting to an alt-right "F*** those bitches" campaign, so this would seem to be a good time for the party to make clear they'll expel his sex criminal ass the second he sets foot in the Capitol should he win.

Make clear that all this election is settling is whether the state has to waste money on a special election in a few months.

I'm not sure that, legally, they can expel someone or refuse to seat someone for actions they took before they were in office. I know that wouldn't be legal in the US Congress.

Nor would that be a good course of action, since it's rather inconsistent with the idea of democracy. The voters have the information and can make a decision based off of that.

House Democrats can refuse to give Coleman committee assignments or let him participate in the caucus, though. Here in Virginia, Democrats did that for Delegate Joe Morrissey after he was convicted for impregnating a 17 year old girl and then re-elected.

You cant impeach him but you can expel him