{"id":694985,"date":"2010-03-18T15:38:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T19:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79582"},"modified":"2010-03-18T15:38:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T19:38:10","slug":"orly-taitz-makes-the-ballot-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/694985","title":{"rendered":"Orly Taitz Makes the Ballot in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Wisckol, who really can&#8217;t be disappointed about having such a fun story on his beat, <a href=\"http:\/\/totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com\/2010\/03\/17\/birther-lawyer-to-run-for-secretary-of-state\/31791\/\">reports<\/a> that Orly Taitz has qualified for the ballot and will run for the GOP&#8217;s nomination for California secretary of state. Her best shot might be knocking the GOP&#8217;s preferred candidate, first-time politician (and African-American) Damon Dunn, off the ballot.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Among the allegations was that Dunn was registered as a Democrat within the last 12 months, which would disqualify him to seek the GOP nomination, [Orange County Registrar of Voters Neal] Kelley said. Candidates must be registered for three months with the party they are running for, and cannot be registered for a different party for 12 months.<span id=\"more-79582\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kelley said that Dunn has been registered as a Republican in Orange County since March 17, 2009. That\u2019s just short of the 12-month mark given the March 12 filing deadline, but meets the three month requirement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In what looks to be a good year for California Republicans, this could become a sizable embarrassment. Voters don&#8217;t typically pay much attention to downballot races, and name recognition can deliver wins &#8212; hello there, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/76019\/and-im-voting-for-scott-lee-cohen\">Scott Lee Cohen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Wisckol, who really can&#8217;t be disappointed about having such a fun story on his beat, reports that Orly Taitz has qualified for the ballot and will run for the GOP&#8217;s nomination for California secretary of state. Her best shot might be knocking the GOP&#8217;s preferred candidate, first-time politician (and African-American) Damon Dunn, off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2UNr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}