Tennessee GOP Remove President Trump’s House Pick and Two Others

The RINOs raise themselves like snakes on a warm spring day to strike.  The old good ole boys will not be denied. One way or another. In this case, changing the law requiring candidates to live in the state for three years.

Tennessee Republicans changed the law which prevented President Trump’s pic for the House in the state from qualifying for office.

Morgan Ortagus

A Trump-backed congressional candidate in Tennessee’s primary race was booted from the ballot after the local GOP voted to remove her because she had only just moved to the state.

Morgan Ortagus served as the State Department Spokesperson under former President Donald Trump and is currently a Navy Reserves officer. She was running to represent the district that encompasses Nashville, but is now unlikely to be able to continue her effort.

Trump had endorsed Ortagus in her bid to represent Tennessee’s 5th congressional district.

‘President Donald Trump believes I’m the best person to fight for his America First agenda and Middle Tennessee in Congress, and I’m working hard to ensure that my fellow Tennesseans, including TNGOP SEC members, understand why,’ Ortagus said in a statement on the decision to remove her.

‘As I have said all along, I believe that voters in Middle Tennessee should pick their representative — not establishment party insiders,’ she continued. ‘Our team is evaluating the options before us.’

The vote came after the GOP-controlled state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill that requires congressional candidates to live in Tennessee for three years to qualify to run on primary ballots.

Republican Governor Bill Lee allowed the bill to become law after failing to sign it in the 10-day period.

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These days it seems we don’t want candidates to make the ballot one way or another. Mustang wrote a good piece if you missed it.

Legal Efforts Increase to Disqualify GOP Candidates as ‘Insurrectionists’

Enter now Marjorie Taylor Greene (also known as MTG), a U.S. House of Representatives member representing Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. She is a member of the Republican Party, first elected to Congress in 2020.  Leftists describe her as “an American politician, businesswoman, and far-right conspiracy theorist.”

As with the case of Mr. Cawthorn, a “group of Georgia voters” has challenged the right of MTG to seek reelection based on the prohibitions outlined in Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment (previously discussed) because she supported insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol on 6 January. 

This issue is now sitting on the desk of federal Judge Amy Totenberg, Senior Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.  Judge Totenberg is a Barack Obama appointee and the sister of media leftist Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio’s Special Correspondent for the U.S. Supreme Court.

We aren’t exactly sure how the matter so suddenly arrived on Judge Totenberg’s desk — but there it sits.  I suspect Mr. Ron Fein, the legal representative of Free Speech for the People, may have mentioned over cocktails that he has reservations about the legality of MTG running for reelection, and the judge may have said, “file a motion, and I’ll look at it.”  You know how that good-old-girl network works.

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