CO-5: Lamborn removed from ballot

[136or142]

From my reading, it sounds to me like his campaign violated a very minor technicality.  (One individual who was hired to get campaign signatures for him was not a resident of Colorado.)

There was also a decision in Texas today that threw out a Republican attempt to get over 80 Democrats knocked off the ballot because the head of the County Democrats didn't sign their nominations. 

If the one case is valid, I don't see how the other isn't.  (In Texas, the judge ruled the Republicans didn't have standing, but I can see them finding a registered Democrat to refile the case.)

Apparently, Lamborn is considering appealing.  I realize 'rules are rules' but if an honest effort is made to obey the rules and a slip up is made, the law shouldn't be an ass.

[Dipper Josh]

From Politics1.com (not yet updated)

District 5:
Doug Lamborn (R)* - (Campaign Site)
Darryl Glenn (R) - El Paso County Commissioner, Attorney, USAF Veteran & '16 US Sen. Nominee
Owen Hill (R) - State Sen., Management Consultant & USAF Veteran
Bill Rhea (R) - Retired Texas District Judge, Attorney & Ex-Christian Missionary
Tyler Stevens (R) - Ex-Green Mountain Falls Mayor & Business Manager
Marcus Murphy (D) - Sanders Campaign Activist
Stephany Rose Spaulding (D) - Baptist Minister & College Professor
Kimberly Sugarman (D) - Financial Analyst

Can Lamborn run a write-in campaign?

According to Ballotpedia Marcus Murphy has dropped out and there is no mention of Kimberly Sugarman on Ballotpedia or data about her on Open Secrets or the FEC's site.

Safe to say Spaulding will be the Democrats nominee. I think she's a Justice Democrat iirc.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Lamborn won't win even if he somehow claws his way back onto the ballot (again, I don't think he will make it on). Darryl Glenn seems ok, but I would much prefer Spaulding.

[Doimper]

From Politics1.com (not yet updated)

District 5:
Doug Lamborn (R)* - (Campaign Site)
Darryl Glenn (R) - El Paso County Commissioner, Attorney, USAF Veteran & '16 US Sen. Nominee
Owen Hill (R) - State Sen., Management Consultant & USAF Veteran
Bill Rhea (R) - Retired Texas District Judge, Attorney & Ex-Christian Missionary
Tyler Stevens (R) - Ex-Green Mountain Falls Mayor & Business Manager
Marcus Murphy (D) - Sanders Campaign Activist
Stephany Rose Spaulding (D) - Baptist Minister & College Professor
Kimberly Sugarman (D) - Financial Analyst

Can Lamborn run a write-in campaign?

Probably not.

Thanks.  This is even more embarrassing than Thad McCotter. At least he was distracted by running for President (and is a Bob Dylan fan.)

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[Rhenna]

Any chance this could flip D if Darryl Glenn just massively flops or splits the vote with Lamborn as a write-in?

[Calthrina950]

Usually these types of events tend to get weirder as time goes on, so I'm willing to throw out my prediction that whichever one of Glenn or Hill make it out of the primary will be #MeTood just days after, setting up yet another fiasco for the Colorado GOP. This is 2018 we're dealing with, after all.

I would hope that something like this would happen to Darryl Glenn. I remember his boast in 2016 about how he was a "proud, constitutional Christian conservative", but he's been divorced already, and allegations of sexual misconduct would just be a further nail in his image.

[Calthrina950]

Lamborn won't win even if he somehow claws his way back onto the ballot (again, I don't think he will make it on). Darryl Glenn seems ok, but I would much prefer Spaulding.

Darryl Glenn is not ok by any means. I am an unaffiliated voter, and in Colorado, unaffiliateds are now allowed to choose which party primary they wish to vote in. I plan on voting against Glenn in the primary, and if he wins that, then I will throw my vote away to Spaulding in the general election. Hill however, will receive my vote in the general if he makes it through, just to maintain the status quo. Under no circumstances will I vote for Glenn.

[Calthrina950]

Any chance this could flip D if Darryl Glenn just massively flops or splits the vote with Lamborn as a write-in?

I do not think so. This district, so far as I know, is not being targeted by the Democratic Party this year, and has remained in Republican hands for forty-five years now. The military is a very powerful factor here, and the military is a staunchly conservative constituency. This district has traditionally been the safest Republican district in Colorado (though Ken Buck's district has become more solidly Republican in recent years due to the removal of Fort Collins). Things would have to go very badly for this district to change hands.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Lamborn won't win even if he somehow claws his way back onto the ballot (again, I don't think he will make it on). Darryl Glenn seems ok, but I would much prefer Spaulding.

Darryl Glenn is not ok by any means. I am an unaffiliated voter, and in Colorado, unaffiliateds are now allowed to choose which party primary they wish to vote in. I plan on voting against Glenn in the primary, and if he wins that, then I will throw my vote away to Spaulding in the general election. Hill however, will receive my vote in the general if he makes it through, just to maintain the status quo. Under no circumstances will I vote for Glenn.

Amen. Glenn is a ridiculously terrible individual. There's a reason I endorsed Bennett for 2016 Senate even though I'm not that fond of Bennett.

[Calthrina950]

Lamborn won't win even if he somehow claws his way back onto the ballot (again, I don't think he will make it on). Darryl Glenn seems ok, but I would much prefer Spaulding.

Darryl Glenn is not ok by any means. I am an unaffiliated voter, and in Colorado, unaffiliateds are now allowed to choose which party primary they wish to vote in. I plan on voting against Glenn in the primary, and if he wins that, then I will throw my vote away to Spaulding in the general election. Hill however, will receive my vote in the general if he makes it through, just to maintain the status quo. Under no circumstances will I vote for Glenn.

Amen. Glenn is a ridiculously terrible individual. There's a reason I endorsed Bennett for 2016 Senate even though I'm not that fond of Bennett.

Same here. The primary reason why I voted for Bennet in 2016 was because of Glenn. In fact, that may have been the only reason, since in hindsight, I am not too fond about Bennet's prior staunch support for Hillary Clinton. I was one of 30,000 voters in Colorado who supported Bennet but did not back Clinton (I went for Evan McMullin).

[KingSweden]

Usually these types of events tend to get weirder as time goes on, so I'm willing to throw out my prediction that whichever one of Glenn or Hill make it out of the primary will be #MeTood just days after, setting up yet another fiasco for the Colorado GOP. This is 2018 we're dealing with, after all.

Let’s save this prediction as it probably comes true.

[Calthrina950]

Unfortunately, Lamborn has been placed back on the ballot by the federal court in Denver. I'll put a link up as soon as an article appears online (since I got this as a breaking news item from tv).

[Calthrina950]

Here's an article from my local news station: http://www.kktv.com/content/news/Judge-rules-Rep-Lamborn-can-be-on-GOP-Primary-Ballot-481421801.html.

[ON Progressive]

lmao

[Calthrina950]

Bumping this up to make a reflection about the results in the primary election. I had fully expected Lamborn to win the primary, given how the opposition vote against him was divided between four Republican candidates. However, I was not expecting for him to not only win the primary, but to win it with an absolute majority, nor to beat his closest opponent (Darryl Glenn) by 33 percentage points. It seems as if Lamborn's strategy of hitching himself as tightly to the Trump Train as possible paid off.

Well, this means that I will have to throw my vote away to his opponent in November, though I know he is going to sail to reelection.

[Burke Bro]

Bumping this up to make a reflection about the results in the primary election. I had fully expected Lamborn to win the primary, given how the opposition vote against him was divided between four Republican candidates. However, I was not expecting for him to not only win the primary, but to win it with an absolute majority, nor to beat his closest opponent (Darryl Glenn) by 33 percentage points. It seems as if Lamborn's strategy of hitching himself as tightly to the Trump Train as possible paid off.

Well, this means that I will have to throw my vote away to his opponent in November, though I know he is going to sail to reelection.

I was shocked by Lamborn's win, too. The race was expected to be much tighter. Perhaps there was some wishful thinking on my part (I'm not a fan of his, and would've liked to see him primaried). Now, he'll have no problem getting re-elected.

[Calthrina950]

Bumping this up to make a reflection about the results in the primary election. I had fully expected Lamborn to win the primary, given how the opposition vote against him was divided between four Republican candidates. However, I was not expecting for him to not only win the primary, but to win it with an absolute majority, nor to beat his closest opponent (Darryl Glenn) by 33 percentage points. It seems as if Lamborn's strategy of hitching himself as tightly to the Trump Train as possible paid off.

Well, this means that I will have to throw my vote away to his opponent in November, though I know he is going to sail to reelection.

I was shocked by Lamborn's win, too. The race was expected to be much tighter. Perhaps there was some wishful thinking on my part (I'm not a fan of his, and would've liked to see him primaried). Now, he'll have no problem getting re-elected.

Lamborn's opponent in the general election is a very progressive Democrat, of whom I know almost nothing about otherwise. But I am not going to vote for him any under any circumstances. I didn't in 2016, and I won't this year. Hopefully in 2020, the field clears, and some other Republican (hopefully not named Darryl Glenn) comes in and is finally able to defeat him. Bill Rhea would have been the perfect candidate, and I would have had no problems voting for him in the general. But he never had a chance.

[nerd73]

Bill Rhea probably would have done better as a Democrat, but the Republicans need him far more than the Democrats do.

[Calthrina950]

Bill Rhea probably would have done better as a Democrat, but the Republicans need him far more than the Democrats do.

Agreed. I voted for Rhea in the primary (as you can guess from my post), because Lamborn and Glenn were intolerable to me, I knew nothing about Tyler Stevens, and I wasn't too keen about Owen Hill (though I wouldn't have any problem with him). But now, I will have to throw my vote away to Lamborn's opponent yet again. At least there are statewide races this fall where my vote will truly make a difference.