Teachers try to boot Angle petition

Jon Ralston and his omnipresence are back from vacation, and he already has the scoop on the Nevada State Education Association complaint filed late Friday with the Secretary of State. The complaint aims to disqualify the Sharon Angle-backed property tax initiative.

For the lazy:

The complaint centers around "(1) numerous intances where the circulator never executed the required affidavit; and (2) instances where the affidavit was executed improperly." The complaint cointinues on with specific examples of mistakes made in the signature gathering process, the specific Nevada law governing the signature gathering process, and Nevada Supreme Court cases on the subject for precedent.

The whole mess can be summed up in one sentence in the complaint which states that "at least 80 percent of the signatures reviewed were invalid due to the defective affidavits."

For historical perspective, this would be the third time that Sharon Angle has failed to qualify her petition on the ballot. It is amazing that her financial backers have not yet grown tired of throwing good money after bad.