Our weekly round-up of letters published in the Dothan Eagle.
“Coleman's raw deal”
Mr. Coleman had from Jan. 4 to a deadline of Jan. 28 to qualify. Those dates were clear, established, and known to all potential candidates. But unlike all the other candidates, Mr. Coleman chose not to comply with the established dates. Fact, the deadline is set by Alabama election law, which stipulates that qualifying must end 116 days before the primary.
The glaring problem with that injunction—like so many of the occurrences in the 2020 election—is that the Secretary of State has no more legal authority to extend the deadline than the Alabama GOP. Simply, a federal court injunction cannot randomly negate or ignore a state law. To do so is tantamount to justifying and encouraging the rampant violations of election laws in the “swing states” during the 2020 election that has left so many of the GOP faithful justifiably aggrieved.
Like all too many of those in politics, Mr. Coleman is pointing the finger at everyone except himself for being disqualified from the ballot. He claims to be an aggrieved victim of a “political machine” that is conspiring to keep him off the ballot, though he has failed to say exactly who that includes.
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