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Smooth Move

J.B. Powell’s handpicked successor doesn’t live in the district.

“Let me apologies to my family, to the state Democratic Party, to those who were supporting me in this endeavor it’s totally my responsibility it’s my fault I failed to cover first base,” said [Leon] Garvin.

Garvin is apologizing because last week he qualified as a Democrat for the 23rd District State Senate seat…

But Garvin lives in the 22nd Senate District, and has contacted the state Democratic Party to withdraw as a candidate.

Garvin and Powell are apparently very close politically.

The mistake came on Garvin’s end. He claims he didn’t look at the district map properly, and thought he lived in the 23rd district. Here’s a tip to all potential candidates. Just go here to find out which district you live in.

I guess Juliana has a partial answer to her question.

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7 responses to “Smooth Move”

  1. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Yeah, yeah, but Someone’s supposed to be there to check this stuff at the last minute, right? Geez, again with Casey Stengel. I know, ever more ancient history.

    JMP

  2. innerredneckexposed Avatar
    innerredneckexposed

    Because the parties are responsible for qualifying candidates not the S0S.

  3. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Well with redistricting every other year or so during the 1st years of GOP rule, it’s a small wonder that many folks are seriously confused about the issue. But isn’t the SoS’ Office supposed to check via the self same website as they’re registering down there? If not, what’s the use of them being there and requiring candidates to show up there to qualify? It was supposed to act as a ‘double check’ on qualifying, and seemingly it just rarely works anymore. Wonder why.

    JMP

  4. Mouth of the South Avatar
    Mouth of the South

    I think Chuck Pardue qualified in that race so we may have someone yet.

  5. Jen Brock Avatar
    Jen Brock

    Wow. This is the second most ridiculous thing I’ve read all day.

  6. Ed Avatar
    Ed

    You can have signatures to get someone on the ballot. REMEMBER this is almost a perfectly 50/50 district, it is completely winable, as is Ag Comm. That and AG are probably the two best shots we have along with Gov once Roy wins.

  7. Jules Avatar
    Jules

    This really begs a different question… Who the hell was he voting for that he never noticed? It’s not about a map!

    Seriously these two are claiming they want to be political leaders and they didn’t notice that one hadn’t ever seen the others name on a ballot cause it’s the wrong district?

    This is a bungle of gianormus implications.

    Let me get this straight, no one can qualify, we lose the Sen seat, we likely lose the Ag commish and look seriously stupid doing it. Nice.

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