Judge Jennifer Frydrychowicz has released the order dismissing Bruce Childers’ motion to get on the August primary ballot.
Her analysis:
Childers failed to demonstrate a clear legal right (or a substantial likelihood of success on the merits).
- The onus for filing full and public disclosure of financial interests is on the candidate, who signs a sworn statement when qualifying.
- She found the “law is clear and unambiguous as to the candidate’s requirements.” Any complaints about the requirements should be directed to the Florida Legislature.
There is an unavailability of an adequate remedy at law.
- Childers did not seek monetary damages but wanted the ability to run for office.
Childers failed to prove irreparable harm.
- Childers cannot be put back on the ballot because he never was on the ballot. He was not “deprived of the right to run for office.”
Childers failed to prove that the requested relief would serve the public interest.
- A judiciary that consistently adheres to the rule of law best serves the public’s interest.
Conclusion
Bruce Childers failed to file the complete sworn statement of his full and public disclosure of his financial interests before the qualifying deadline of June 14, 2024, at noon, which is required by law.
- He was not certified as a qualified candidate to the Division of Elections, and thus, the issue before the Court is not whether to put him back on the ballot but to unilaterally place him on the ballot. This Court is bound by the law as it is written, and no authority has been provided that would enable the Court to grant such drastic relief.
Bruce failed to prove his clear legal right to placement on the ballot.
Pam and Bruce Childers have prima facie admitted, because I have made constant public statements Pam Childers lacked the minimum valid signatures to qualify, in 2020, that she did not, and she just got covered for by David Stafford, because I have not been sued for defamation by either of them or by Stafford for making such claims when everyone knows who I am.
Understand, neither Pam, nor Bruce, nor David will sue me, for that, because I am telling the truth, now I tend to believe, it would hurt my chances for election to ECUA District 3 to finally be sworn in as Circuit Clerk and get some remainder of my term, but even communicating that to people has not gotten this answered, there is a question of the Benson fee or not, because we know what reports say, whether that is litigated in truth, depends in part on the August 20th primary, I’m not litigating that if I have won District 3 at the polls in the universal primary contest.
But what is true, I am the candidate of economic opportunity and of stronger economic development and recruitment to Escambia County, no one can question that.
It is obvious though, Pam is not legitimately Clerk by proper operation of law, we know this, because I am stating clearly, as a factual statement, Pamela Lynn Childers did not have the minimum valid signatures to qualify for eligibility to be a candidate for Circuit Clerk having chosen signature petition method in 2020, and that as such, Chase Anderson Romagnano, myself, great-grandson of WKRG’s Connie Bea Hope, as a qualified write-in, was first place qualified candidate in votes received, thus, by proper operation of law, duly elected, I have made this as a factual statement, where if it is untrue, I can be sued for libel, and if untrue, also subject to election laws for untrue statements made in context of elections, part of Title IX of Florida Statutes.
Now watch, you will see no one try and take legal action against me for that statement, they cannot, because it is a true statement, so watch, and see the lack of legal action speak for itself the truth of my statement, remembering that I descend from colonial pioneers like Jean Baptiste Baudreau De Graveline II from both parents.