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

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What is wrong with this dude? The State House Speaker should refuse to seat him, this is insane.

This would set a very disturbing precedent (i.e. refuse to seat someone to not lose the majority).

There is actually a good, non-political reason for refusing to seat him though, especially if what he did was illegal.  (I don't know what Kansas law says about this.)

If he's seated, Democrats need to scrub this kid from any position of influence in the party and statehouse and primary his ass out in 2022.

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https://twitter.com/Aaron4KS37/status/1297413515863625728
Good riddance.

The gall of this idiot.  And the fact that he's a Bernie guy is the last thing the movement needs.

His exclusion from the race is good for everyone, frankly.

I don't know what to make of this kid.  But if he is elected in a free and fair election he should be seated.  There is no reason NOT to seat him if he wins an election, and the precedent that would set if he were not seated simply because some think him an HP has all sorts of unintended negative consequences that would apply in future candidacies and future elections.

I do find it ironic that the Democratic Party, which has given much lip service to "marginalized" people is thinking up ways to not seat a young man who, from the little I have read here, certainly fits the description of "marginalized".  He seems like a troubled kid, and things he's done are somewhat disturbing, but I would hardly think that denying him his seat that he's been elected to is just, both to him and to the voters (who should get whom they voted for). 

I wouldn't want a legislature full of people like this kid, but having one of him in the legislature may be a good thing.  Let him fail honestly if he is going to fail, and let him succeed if he can do so.  He's earned the Democratic nomination, and he'll earn the seat if he survives a write-in.  There is no reason to treat him differently than anyone else if he wins.

How on earth does an immature twit getting booted out of a race for an office that he is NOT entitled to for bullying, blackmailing, and sending revenge porn of girls he creeped out in middle school make him "marginalized?"  The only bad thing about this is that people didn't know who he was until after he won the primary.

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https://twitter.com/Aaron4KS37/status/1302638089408589824
...Wow.

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This child will become a national figure of revulsion for the following reasons:

1. Republicans attacking Democrats, obviously.

2. Neoliberal democrats will show him as what happens when you allow an up and comer grassroots candidate to unseat an establishment politician.

1. Him being an absolute scum of the earth and a disgusting human being.

That's it.

Yeah, this really isn't something I think anyone cares to play the "progressive vs. establishment wing" game. Not a single person in the progressive wing (except for, I'm sure, a few sick randos on Twitter... because it's Twitter) is defending or supporting him and wants him out of the race and out of the movement.

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Terrible result, but he'll be politically neutered in the statehouse and primaried by a non-scumbag in 2022.

Expulsion definitely isn't an option. The voters elected a scumbag and they are stuck with that scumbag for two years.

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Terrible result, but he'll be politically neutered in the statehouse and primaried by a non-scumbag in 2022.

Expulsion definitely isn't an option. The voters elected a scumbag and they are stuck with that scumbag for two years.

He's a terrorist.

Expulsion absolutely is an option.

No, actually, he is not a "terrorist". Just a mentally unstable and deeply depraved sorry excuse for a human being.

All of the news about his abuse broke out before the election. People elected him anyway.

I cannot see any proper legal avenue for removing him from office, because he was not an elected official at the time he abused these women and it is not relevant to the office he's been elected to.

To expel him would be to nullify the decision of the voters.

But the Kansas Democratic Caucus owes him no favors. They may bar him from all committee assignments and alienate him from the caucus. That way he will be able to vote on legislation, but nothing else.

Then run a good candidate in 2022 and kick his ass.

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Okay, expel him.

The audacity of this kid to drop out, re-enter the race as some sort of martyr, and still not have gotten the message that he's on thin ice. Glad they can get rid of him quickly now.

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Coleman is the third Kansas legislator to face allegations of criminal conduct this year. Rep. Mark Samsel, a Wellsville Republican, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after he allegedly kicked a student in the groin while substitute teaching. And Sen. Gene Suellentrop, a Wichita Republican, drove the wrong way down Interstate 70 in Topeka while drunk. He pleaded guilty in October to driving under the influence and reckless driving. All three remain in office.

What the hell is in the water over there?

Hopefully this is it for Coleman. They should've started the impeachment/expulsion process after the most recent(!!!) domestic violence arrest.