Ha Ha!

The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that Nick Kristof has not been a resident of Oregon for 3 years, and so cannot run for governor.

I wrote last month that I hoped that the ruling of the secretary of state would stick, and I am pleased that it has:

Oregon’s Democratic primary race for governor narrowed significantly Thursday, with the state Supreme Court ruling that former New York Times columnist Nick Kristof can’t run because he does not meet the state’s three-year residency requirement.

The court’s unanimous ruling leaves former House Speaker Tina Kotek and state Treasurer Tobias Read as frontrunners for May’s Democratic primary, which will also feature a long list of lesser-known candidates.

The high court upheld a January decision by Secretary of State Shemia Fagan that Kristof did not meet Oregon’s requirement that he have lived in the state since November 2019.

It was only in the last year that Kristof has registered to vote in Oregon and filed Oregon income taxes.

So Kristof is throwing in the towel, which surprises me.  I figured that he would follow up with an appeal to the federal courts.

He is, after all, a man who cannot tell the difference between importance and self-importance.