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Simply Ed
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The artist formerly known as Elon Muskrat Love. Not clever enough to be a shitposter, not smart enough to be an expert on anything, not funny enough to be a comedian. Basically mid. Pro-Bay Area sportsball, Democrats. Anti-GOP, Trump, Nazis.
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Um, kinda buried the fact that he was disqualified from being in the ballot, not because of how many signatures he collected, but because...he doesn't actually live at the address he used!

But multiple individuals with ties to the Democratic party challenged Kennedy’s addition to the ballot, and two New York state courts ordered Kennedy removed from the ballot, finding that he used an invalid address on the nominating petition.

Under New York’s election law, minor party candidates must include their “place of residence” on the petition. And the candidate’s residence must be the “fixed, permanent and principal home” to which the candidate “always intends to return.”

Kennedy, however, did not use the address where he lives with his wife in Los Angeles. Instead he used the address where he rents a room from a childhood friend in New York. Although he is registered to vote at the New York address, he concedes he has stayed there overnight on only "one occasion.” Although Kennedy asserted that he always intended to return to the Empire State after his wife’s “Hollywood career is over,” the New York appellate division ruled that the New York room Kennedy rents was not his “f
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@gojira65.bsky.social
The artist formerly known as Elon Muskrat Love. Not clever enough to be a shitposter, not smart enough to be an expert on anything, not funny enough to be a comedian. Basically mid. Pro-Bay Area sportsball, Democrats. Anti-GOP, Trump, Nazis.
394 followers670 following5.3k posts