Candidate Helton Lives in Joppatowne!

Rovall Washington lost his challenge to Helton’s residency. Washington believes that was because neighbors who could testify from their personal observations that Helton does not live in the Ravenswood court house declined to come to court. There was some testimony regarding his past problems with his actual residency in Aberdeen with the Board of Elections threw out a few years ago.  Washington was not represented by an attorney while Helton (former State Senator) was.  Republicans were all over the courtroom audience. Candidate Helton was there sitting in a wheelchair.

Remember, these two are battling it out in a Democratic Primary for State Senate, a position Nancy Jacobs (R) now holds and would like to continue holding.

Washington's levelling of charges & not having a highly skilled lawyer handling this challenge was a real mistake.  If you can't get people up there to testify (and they couldn't), you ain't got jake, Jack.  Sorry, it makes both sides look rather foolish.  On the Helton's side it raises suspicions on where he really does live (or is it just an election residency & playing the system).  This was only Act I in what promises to be a very interesting and bloody Primary battle.

And then there's the actual election against a very tough 3x winner.  This was a sad day for Republicans & a heckuva lotta fun for Republicans who now can sit out the Primary season and just watch the bloodletting.  When the actual election rolls around, much of the hard work will have already been done- by their opponents against themselves!  Don't that beat all.  That's politics.

More on the interesting race and others later.  Here's the Sun's version.