It’s a dance performed around the state a couple of times each year. A member of the Legislature or county government resigns — to take on a different office or to “spend more time with my family.” The local party apparatus begins a process that gives them relevance: the constitutional duty to nominate three people for the vacant post.
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Callaghan: Choices are designed to circumvent state constitution
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