Texas A&M student body president candidate says religious rights 'infringed'

[Heddi]

http://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Texas-AM-student-body-president-candidate-says-religious-rights-infringed-416994513.html

COLLEGE STATION, Tex. (KBTX) -- A candidate for Texas A&M University student body president, that was disqualified despite winning the most votes, is now claiming his religious rights were infringed upon.

Robert McIntosh won the popular vote in the election, but was disqualified for failing to report a campaign expense. Thursday evening, he filed a petition in Brazos County. McIntosh is asking a court to depose three people. Amy Loyd, Rachel Keathley, and Aaron Mitchell were all listed in the court documents. Keathley is the election commissioner and Loyd is the SGA adviser. Mitchell is identified in the petition as having firsthand knowledge of conversations between A&M faculty and staff connected to SGA. The petition alleges those conversations were about keeping McIntosh out of office.

The court document states that McIntosh was reportedly disqualified for violating the campaign finance by-laws, but he wants the court to investigate whether he was actually disqualified because he's a heterosexual, white, Christian male. McIntosh said he wants to depose those three people because they made comments saying they did not want him to be president.

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Late Wednesday, former Texas Governor and current Secretary of Energy Rick Perry weighed in on Brooks' election. He wrote an opinion piece for the Houston Chronicle that called the process at best " a mockery of due process and transparency” and at worst “allowed an election to be stolen outright."

[Raster]

1. Well, when it comes to a mockery of due process and outright stolen elections...

...Rick Perry would know.

[Guilded Lilly]

2. Only conservative, white, heterosexual, male Christians are allowed to steal elections.

Breaking rules and having entitlement riddled character has nothing to do with the process, oh no, never.

[shenmue]

3. Oh bullshit, there's no automatic right to win the election

[Lordquinton]

4. He's naming the one reason that can be safely ruled out

It's more likely that he's a colossal douche canoe who mismanaged his campaign. And now in a beautiful coriographed display of irony, conservatives are up in arms.

[Lordquinton]

5. The deserving Victor is Bobby Brooks

http://heavy.com/news/2017/03/bobby-brooks-rick-perry-robert-mcintosh/


A White gay student, no info on his religion. The technicality was the the kid didn't disclose the receipts for glowsticks used in an event, which saams trivial, but that could have been hundreds of dollars, and the campaign is probably strictly regulated in how much they can spend.

Perry got his qualifying degree for his current Secretary of energy there (in animal husbandry) so that explains why he is interested, but doesn't eliminate the embarrassment we all have to endure at his hands...

[edhopper]

6. Perry's interest

is the kid's father is a major GOP donor.

[Lordquinton]

7. Yes, that's also the case

It's still an embarrassment.