tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post1671571293171978656..comments2023-10-26T08:02:44.948-04:00Comments on Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State: Ganim Inching Towards Bethlehem?Don Pescihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-21741148092012342282011-03-11T15:06:02.861-05:002011-03-11T15:06:02.861-05:00Bruce,
I think you are right about Rado, and of c...Bruce,<br /><br />I think you are right about Rado, and of course Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston famously executed his duties as mayor while in prison. Here you are thinking as a lawyer rather than a politician.<br /><br />Everyman’s healthy response to a constitutional provision that allows felons to hold elective office would, I suppose, be similar to Mr. Bumble’s in Oliver Twist when confronted by a law ruinous to the public good: “’If the law supposes that,’ said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, ‘the law is a ass- a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience- by experience.’"<br /><br />If convicted felons cannot constituitionally be prevented from running for office, the impeachment process should be used to prevent them from holding office longer than good sense would allow. <br /><br />If the impeachment of convicted felons is also constitutionally impossible, this would be further proof that the law, on occasion, is an ass, an important datum for people in a democracy to know.Don Pescihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-67620014934496820832011-03-11T12:25:44.535-05:002011-03-11T12:25:44.535-05:00Don any law prohibiting an ex felon from running ...Don any law prohibiting an ex felon from running for office probably would be un-constitutional at least under the equal protection clause.Be that as it may, there already is a precedent in an ex felon Mayor running for Mayor again, who won...I am thinking of WIlliam Rado from Naugatuck, but I could be wrong.Bruce Rubensteinnoreply@blogger.com