Wait a minute!  Am I to understand from this Spokesman-Review article (City Council candidate Mark Hamilton tossed from ballot) that a Washington State Superior Court judge (the equivalent and obviously the intellectual and ethical superior to an Idaho District Court judge) has followed the state’s residency law and kicked a Spokane City Council candidate off the November ballot because the booted candidate had not met the state’s residency requirement?

Following the law, your honor?  That’s a dangerous precedent — at least it is in Idaho.

Over here, we allow campaign supporters to allegedly rent basements out to candidates to let them allegedly establish their residency, and we have a very accommodating Secretary of State, a (former) county clerk, and judges who aren’t necessarily constrained by the little technicalities that the Legislature wrote into the laws.