Disqualified TN-5 GOP Congressional candidate Robby Starbuck filed a lawsuit in federal court on Monday to get back on the ballot.
NBC reported:
The lawsuit, filed in the Middle District of Tennessee, names state GOP Chair Scott Golden, Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett and the state coordinator of elections, Mark Goins, as defendants. Starbuck argues they broke the law by removing him from the ballot.
The decision to remove Starbuck was made by the state Republican party’s executive committee, which ruled the candidates did not meet the qualifications to run under the party banner as laid out in the Tennessee GOP’s bylaws.
The party has removed dozens of candidates in recent years for failing to adhere to the rules, which are put in place to weed out candidates who are not “bonafide” members of the party. In this round of challenges, the Tennessee GOP removed more than 20 candidates from the ballot.
As The Tennessee Star reported, The Tennessee Republican Party State Executive Committee voted on April 19 not to restore Starbuck, Morgan Ortagus, and Baxter Lee to the TN-5 GOP primary ballot after their Tennessee Republican bona fide qualifications were challenged. TN GOP Chair Scott Golden transmitted a letter to that effect to Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett on April 21, as specified in Tennessee law.
The lawsuit appears to be an attempt to test the constitutionality of the new three year residency state law for candidates seeking to be placed on the TN-5 2022 Congressional primary ballot, which Secretary of State Tre Hargett has said does not apply to this election cycle, rather than the Tennessee GOP bylaws by which Starbuck was disqualified.
Go back to California! We don’t want carpetbaggers trying to turn Tennessee socialist. We don’t want you.
When this guy trumpeted the Rick Grinnell endorsement, that told me all I needed to know about him.
Next thing you know he will hold his breath until he turns purple!
I can’t put my finger on it, but there’s something about that Robby Starbuck that just ain’t right.
Like JD Vance – who you said would never win lol
Robbie, stop embarrassing yourself! We’re not that into you! You will not win the lawsuit nor would you win the election. Why do you have to be hit over the head before you will go away?
Well , that will certainly win him alot of Republican votes, won’t it?
I am so sick of this whiny little brat. He has an ego as big as the world. He has certainly managed to piss off a lot of people. I heard him speak once and I thought I might support him but when he lied about voting in TN elections, I decided we have enough liars and cheaters in Congress we didn’t need him. After years of Cooper we need someone like Andy Ogles.
Robby get over yourself.
This will not go well for Starbuck.