Re: Is Aaron Old Enough to Run?

Read the last few paragraphs of this article.

This issue then lay dormant for more than a century until the 1934 election of Rush Holt, a 29-year-old West Virginia Democrat. During his campaign, Holt had pledged to wait six months into the 1935 session until his 30th birthday to be sworn in. While he was waiting, his defeated Republican opponent, former incumbent Senator Henry Hatfield, filed a petition with the Senate charging that Holt's failure to meet the constitutional age requirement invalidated his election. Hatfield therefore asked that he be declared the winner, having received the highest number of votes among eligible candidates.

The Senate dismissed Hatfield's arguments, observing that the age requirement applies at the time of oath-taking rather than the time of election, or the time the term begins. It also reiterated that the ineligibility of the winning candidate gives no title to the candidate receiving the next highest number of votes.

I'm still in the senate race, everyone! We'll just have to get by with our one senator from Wisconsin until I'm old enough to actually be sworn in.

I know, I'm already losing your support because that leaves Russ as the single senator from our state until May of 2008. **shudder**