Carpetbagging NY Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof DENIED Run for Governor in Oregon

It’s so tragic, it is! Officials from Oregon announced that the former had been re-elected in January 6. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof was ineligible to run for governor of Oregon (as a Democrat) because he doesn’t meet the three-year requirement for residency. AP reported: 

Shemia Fagan (Democratic Secretary of State) stated that Kristof was a New Yorker up to just over a year ago. He cited in particular the fact that he voted in New York for the 2020 election.

“Oregon statute provides directly that … if a person casts a ballot in another state, they are no longer a resident of Oregon. It’s very, very simple,” Fagan told reporters.

“For 20 years living, working, raising his kids, holding a driver’s license, filing taxes and voting as a New York resident until a year ago just doesn’t pass the smell test,” she added…

Fagan said she endorsed the decision by the elections officials, who work for her, and didn’t consider overruling it, adding: “It wasn’t even a close call.”

It seems so obvious. Why did it take more than two years to make the decision? In December, the Oregon Secretary of State’s office reached out to Kristof’s campaign about concerns that he had not filed his candidacy yet. After that, they sent him an email asking for additional information. They said “it was brought to our attention you had voted in New York State as recent as 2020.” A New York driver’s licence was also issued to him. 

Kristof believes that his fellow Democrats want to prevent a loser, an outsider. The office of governor in Oregon has been held since 1987 by Democrats. AP said he raised more than $1 million in less than a month for his campaign, but they didn’t say how much of that came from outside Oregon.

Kristof vowed to appeal the decision, tweeting: “A failing political establishment in Oregon has chosen to protect itself, rather than give voters a choice.”

“I come from outside the political establishment, and I don’t owe insiders anything,” he later told a news conference. “They view my campaign as a threat and so, instead of working to end homelessness, they’re working to end my candidacy.”

Kristof tried to get residency on the basis of his financial interests in his childhood home, where his mother is still living. Andrew Cuomo, if he truly wanted to be governor in the state where he has actually lived and voted is available now.