Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle won't run for House

[The Northerner]

Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle said today she won't run in a special election for a U.S. House seat in Nevada, saying the process is a "mockery."

Angle, a former state legislator who gained national attention last year as Nevada's GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate, did not disclose her future political plans.

"I do not have any desire to participate in a process described by others as a 'ballot royale' or a situation where the party central committees choose their nominees because it makes a mockery of the most important constitutional element in exercising freedom," Angle said in a statement.

A court ruling allowing the state party committees to pick their nominees in the 2nd Congressional District is being appealed to the Nevada Supreme Court. There is a vacancy because Republican Dean Heller was appointed to the U.S. Senate.

The special election will be held on Sept. 13.

Source: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/05/sharron-angle-tea-party-nevada-house-race-/1

[RandomThoughts]

1. yea it is a joke if a non elected commitee picks who can be elected.

[murielm99]

2. In most places, the people on the state committee

hold some type of elected offices. At the very least, they are precinct committeemen. Many of them are state reps or state senators. They are elected to the committee by their parties.