Office space
If Scottie Mayfield wins the Third District Congressional seat, he'd be the first non-Chattanoogan to do so since the 1890s.
So would he have an office in the Scenic City?
In an interview Saturday at the opening of his Chattanooga campaign headquarters, Mayfield smiled, hesitated and said he hadn't considered the congressional office question. First, he said, he must beat U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann and two others in the Aug. 2 Republican primary before squaring off against the Democratic nominee in November.
"It's a cart-before-the-horse issue," he said.
But in a subsequent conversation amid chatty supporters and coolers bursting with Mayfield milk and lemonade, he said he would keep a Chattanooga office "for sure," adding that he might establish an Athens office "for my own convenience." Mayfield also said he would staff an office near Oak Ridge, where numerous U.S. Department of Energy programs are housed.
Mark, perhaps that is one of
Mark, perhaps that is one of the problems with these rulings. They base their ruling on a precedent that may have been WRONG from the begining. The courts should rule based on one thing, the Constitution. Precedents just mean $$$ for lawyers.
You don't have to go to law school to see that the Federal Government has NO Constitutional authority granted to it to do Anything with Energy. The constitution defines what congress can do, Article 1, section 8; then it says if it ain't in there, then you can not do it (amendment 10).
Remember the 10th
Remember the 10th amendment.
legal court precedents? "Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be reprehended; if defective let it be amended, but not suffered to be trampled upon whilst it has an existence." - George Washington, our country's first President said this in 1786
Mickey, You may have missed
Mickey,
You may have missed this little fact but Western jurisprudence is based on precedent because precedent is about the principles of Law. From Cicero to English Common Law to the Constitution precedent underlies our very notion of law and and legal theory.
Washington was not a lawyer. He was a farmer and a soldier. If you were to have this discussion with John Adams or James Madison, they would have a far different perspective.
Obey the constitution. Energy
Obey the constitution. Energy is not in there, leave it to the state, and commerce clause just tells states they can not impose taxes on it coming from other states.
Just because the word
Just because the word 'energy' isn't in the Constitution does not mean that it isn't part of interstate commerce. Think steamboats or jet planes. And the Framers were concerned about more than state taxes. Remember Gibbons vs Ogden.
Mickey, The Framers provided
Mickey,
The Framers provided for Departments of the Treasury, Interior, War and State. They also included the Commerce Clause to allow the Federal Government to prevent states from waging economic war against each other.
Given those precedents, how in the name of Alexander Hamilton do you conclude that the Department of Energy is unconstitutional?
Is Energy an issue of interstate commerce? Since we need energy to get from state to state to state in cars or trains etc, that would seem to be so.
Is Energy an issue of national security? Duh!
Now please go back to your cheetos and leave the thinking to the adults.
So I guess he will not get
So I guess he will not get rid of the unconstitutional Department of Energy, if he is going to have an office there.