Alison Lundergan Grimes: Rand Paul Can't Run For Senate And President In 2016

[steve2470]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/18/alison-lundergan-grimes-rand-paul_n_6347730.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes said she'd challenge Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) if he attempted to run for both Senate and president in 2016.

"The law is clear," Grimes told WHAS. "You can't be on the ballot twice for two offices."

Kentucky's current law says "no candidate's name shall appear on any voting machine or absentee ballot more than once," except for certain special elections, according to the AP.

Paul announced in early December he would run for Senate again in 2016. He also said he will decide on a presidential run in "the March/April time frame."

[Drale]

1. I always thought that it should be a law that

if you are holding an office already and you want to run for a different office, you have to resign from your current office first. Bad people might think twice about running for a higher officer and if they do that would take them out of their current office.