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Sue Ek has been forced out of the race for the House seat in St. Cloud (H/T Andy)

The Minnesota Supreme Court has ordered Sue Ek’s name removed from the Dec. 27 special election ballot.

Ek was the Republican candidate for an open House seat in District 15B. The decision came after a 75-minute hearing this morning. She was running against Stearns County Commissioner Larry Haws, the DFL-endorsed candidate.

On Friday, a lower-court judge ruled that Ek did not meet the residency requirement to run for the Legislature in St. Cloud. The Supreme Court agreed with the findings. State law requires a candidate to live within a district for six months. Ek signed an affidavit July 9 saying she lived in St. Paul.

Good. She wasn’t eligible. Her running would have been a clear violation of the rules. Get your ass out of the race and stay out.

Triple_A had the following commentary:

I hope we can all agree this is terrible news for the GOP, and great for the DFL. (Not that I am happy with this.)

Boo f-ing Hoo. Sorry, I have no sympathy for the GOP. I realize this is a loss for them and I realize what this means at the state level, but I still say good.

I have no room in my heart for incompetence. I mean seriously, residency requirements aren’t exactly rocket science. If you can’t be trusted to do the simple things, then perhaps you don’t deserve a seat on our government. How can I trust you to balance a state budget if you can’t even remember your address??

Who I do have sympathy for, is anyone who contributed money to her campaign or that district. You entrusted your party with your hard earned cash and they f-ed it up. Hope you learned from it. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Translation : keep your eyes open next time, because sure as hell they aren’t.

I realize my side lost, but I didn’t sell my soul when I embraced conservatism. A dumbass is still a dumbass, and what I see is a dumbass. Our dumbass lost. Their dumbass will probably win. At least theirs can remember their zip code.

Hopefully lesson learned. Just don’t expect a sympathy card.