Tucson City Council Election Update: Marshall Home™ has some explaining to do

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The Arizona Daily Star today reports Both Democratic hopefuls for Tucson mayor are challenged:

Tucson resident and Democratic activist Luke Knipe filed a challenge alleging Marshall Home shouldn't be able to run on two fronts – that he doesn't meet residency requirements and that he never had his civil rights restored after a felony assault conviction in 2002 resulted in a prison sentence of at least 10 months.

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The suit to knock off Home, filed by attorney Bill Walker, notes the City Charter requires a mayoral candidate to have resided within the city and been a qualified voter there for at least three years immediately before launching a bid.

The Pima County Recorder's Office, however, attested that Home last year changed his registration from his longtime city address to an address outside the limits of Tucson. He voted by mail as an independent from that address in the 2010 general election. He reregistered in March at his city address and changed his party registration to Democrat.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Let's stop right there. I posted earlier that our sovereign citizen, Marshall Home™, has a felony conviction in the U.S. District Court of Arizona for one count of simple assault on a Deputy U.S. Marshall in the performance of his duties, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 111(a)(1) back in 2002, and he was sentenced to ten months in prison with credit for time served and a $2,000 fine. And this petition challenge alleges that Marshall Home™ never had his civil rights restored after being incarcerated for assaulting this federal marshal.

Asked if his rights were ever restored, Home responded, "Oh nonsense, don't ask me a question about that. They cannot take away my rights."

Yes they can, and they did, dumbass.

Why is this important? Because you have to be a "qualified elector," i.e., a registered voter to run for political office. Marshall Home™ has two more legal issues that Seceretary of State Ken Bennett and Attorney General Tom Horne should investigate: as a convicted felon, Home™ committed voter registration fraud when he falsely attested on his voter registration form either that he had not been convicted of a felony or that he had his civil rights restored; and Home™ committed voter fraud when he cast a ballot in any election in which he was not an eligible voter (a convicted felon whose civil rights had not been restored).

A.R.S. Sec. 16-101 provides, in pertinent part:

A. Every resident of the state is qualified to register to vote if he:

1. Is a citizen of the United States.

2. Will be eighteen years of age or more on or before the date of the regular general election next following his registration.

3. Will have been a resident of the state twenty-nine days next preceding the election, except as provided in section 16-126.

4. Is able to write his name or make his mark, unless prevented from so doing by physical disability.

5. Has not been convicted of treason or a felony, unless restored to civil rights.

6. Has not been adjudicated an incapacitated person as defined in section 14-5101.

Tom Horne engaged in some serious buffoonery earlier this week alleging that President Obama wants "illegal aliens" to vote in Arizona because the U.S. Department of Justice filed a brief in support of federal preemption of the proof of citizenship required to vote in federal elections under Arizona's Prop. 200 (2004), pursuant to the National Voter Registration Act. Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne angry at feds' brief.

Here is a clear case of a convicted felon whose civil rights have not been restored voting in Arizona elections because he lied about it, right under Tom Horne's nose. Way to go, McGruff the Crime Dog.

Here is something else Tom Horne should investigate:

Home said the government has no right to require licenses of any kind, from business, to marriage, to driving.

Does he have a license now? No. Does he continue to drive? Absolutely.

"I'm for freedom and free choice," he said.

I'm guessing our sovereign citizen doesn't have proof of insurance either, because mandatory auto insurance would violate his "free choice" to be a financial disaster to anyone he injures in a wreck while enjoying his "freedom" to drive.

Home™, whom U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Eileen Hollowell in mid-May deemed a "vexatious litigant" for his many frivolous lawsuits (a tactic known as "paper terrorism" in the sovereign citizen movement), has filed a lawsuit to disqualify Democrat Jonathan Rothschild on the rather novel theory that because lawyers are officers of the court, and thus a member of the judiciary branch, they are precluded from serving in the legislative or executive branch. This will, of course, come as news to the many lawyers who have served in elective office since the founding of this country, including a substantial number of the Founding Fathers who drafted the Constitution.

Jim Nintzel at The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch has the quote of the day from Home™:

“All lawyers are thieves and [what] they do is pathetic. We don’t have a judge—not one judge—in all of courts today. Since the federal bankruptcy in 1933. In 1937, Roosevelt called in everybody and they passed some kind of ruling. There is not one judge one the bench. They are all administrative officers. Yes, I have a hard-on against lawyers. No doubt about it.”

Geezus, after a week-long media frenzy over Weiner jokes you would think this fool would know better. Put that thing away before you poke somebody's eye out, fool!