He didn't come remotely close to suggesting that he shouldn't be "allowed to run for office." You're just inventing that from nothing. He *is* saying that people shouldn't vote for him, which is...completely valid? People are allowed to offer their election opinions.
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Replying to @Davidzteich @chippens and
It's super duper easy to attack people for having unreasonable opinions when you just fabricate opinions they don't actually have out of thin air.
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Replying to @chippens @Davidzteich and
The goal was to beat him in the general election, which hasn't actually happened yet and which Frownfelter has the constitutional right to run in as a write-in candidate None of that is undemocratic or against the rules - the primary is not the real election and we all know that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chippens and
It's obvious that nobody really knew or cared about this race previously - Coleman won the primary in an election where 1600 people voted total, in a district that serves 21,000 It is perfectly appropriate for his opponent to try to drum up more attention for the general
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chippens and
None of this is unprecedented - this is exactly what happened when Lisa Murkowski ran a write-in campaign for the Senate in Alaska in 2010, making the same argument that Joe Miller had snuck in when voters weren't paying attention, and they had a chance to fix their mistake
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chippens and
And it worked If you don't think such a thing should be possible then call for an amendment to the state constitution But given that primaries are notoriously low-turnout elections, especially when the presidential nomination is no longer at stake, it seems fair to me
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chippens and
If Aaron Coleman has chosen to withdraw from the race rather than fight it out till November because he can't deal with the increased scrutiny, that's fucking democracy If you run for a public office, requesting a position of authority and trust, you get vetted
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chippens and
And, frankly, if you think this is all irrational hate mobbing, you don't know what you're talking about It is really clear at this point that Coleman withdrew because if he continued to run there'd be more disclosures on their way, about much more recent events
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It was obviously the correct decision to withdraw because he was going to lose and the longer he stayed in the worse things would get for his personal life If you actually care about his welfare you should be supporting that choice and not trying to make him a martyr
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chippens and
I'm pretty sure the receipts flying around Twitter of stuff that he did in 2020 that calls the "changed man" narrative into question are why we're going to be hearing eerie silence from Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Grim on this topic this week
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chippens and
I have to wonder how much of glen hopping on this train was to avoid commenting on the senate report about Russia.
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