September 14, 2010 11:58 PM UTC

BREAKING: Tancredo & Miller stay on the ballot

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• by: Awen

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

POLS UPDATE: Here’s a copy of the judge’s ruling. You know, if you like reading that sort of thing:

The ACP is a minor political party as defined in C.R.S. § 1-1-104(23).2 ACP does not participate in Colorado’s primary election. Instead, it holds a nominating assembly to select candidates. Therefore, by law, when Messrs. Goss and Campbell were nominated at the ACP assembly on May 15, 2010, they became the ACP’s general election candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. See C.R.S. § 1-4-1304(1.5)(d). Once they resigned their respective nominations, general election vacancies were created, and such vacancies could be filled pursuant to C.R.S. § 1-4-1002…

Here, there were vacancies in nominations created by the withdrawal of Mr. Goss and Mr. Campbell. Those vacancies occurred after Mr. Goss and Mr. Campbell had been designated with the Secretary as ACP’s candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor, but more than seventy days before the general election scheduled for November 2, 2010. Paragraph four of Article 11 of ACP’s bylaws specifically addresses “post-convention vacancies” and authorizes ACP’s Candidate Search Committee and Executive Committee to fill those vacancies. ACP’s Candidate Search Committee and Executive Committee both unanimously voted to designate both Mr. Tancredo and Ms. Miller to fill the vacancies at issue. Therefore, ACP’s actions complied with their bylaws and Colorado’s statutory requirement for filling the vacancies.

Shorter version: For the ballot box, not the courts. Original post follows.

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Just released a few minutes ago…will have more when I finish reading it 🙂