Facing questions in late September about her eligibility to hold public office, Ericka Lomick, the Democratic nominee for Texas House District 93 in Tarrant County, suspended her campaign weeks before Election Day. But it was too late to remove her name from the ballot.
In the wake of last week’s blue bloodbath that saw her win, Lomick reversed course and said this week she’s “fully qualified to take the office to which I was elected.”
But on Friday, her Republican opponent Alan Blaylock asked the state to stop her. Blaylock’s lawyers sent a letter, obtained by The Texas Tribune, asking Secretary of State Robert Howden to declare Lomick ineligible because of a previous felony conviction in a North Carolina federal mortgage fraud case. The GOP nominee’s lawyers asked Howden for a response by noon Monday as the deadline to certify the election looms…