Posted on 01/14/2016 12:30:13 PM PST by GIdget2004
Donald Trump's campaign tried to get his rival Republicans kicked off the ballot in Illinois – but the attempt failed when his state chair failed to bring duplicate copies of the required forms.
The Guardian has learned that on Wednesday, the last day for candidates to object to signatures submitted by rival campaigns to get on the ballot, chair Kent Gray showed up at the Illinois board of elections a few minutes before it closed. Illinois has some of the toughest ballot access laws in the country, and qualifying for the ballot requires gathering a different number of signatures in each of the state's 18 congressional districts. Candidates often stumble trying to fulfill the state's requirements....
State politicians have long had a "gentleman's agreement" that candidates would not attempt to contest each other's signatures and throw each other off the ballot. But challenging petition signatures as a form of political chicanery in the Land of Lincoln has a long history. Barack Obama first won election to the state senate in 1996 by successfully challenging the signatures of his incumbent opponent and getting her removed from the ballot.
It had been widely reported that the campaign of Governor John Kasich of Ohio, a vocal Trump critic, had problems gathering signatures in Illinois, and representatives of Kasich, along with the campaigns of Florida senator Marco Rubio and neurosurgeon Ben Carson, were monitoring for any objections from rival camps. It seemed that they had dodged a bullet until Gray walked in attempting to object to a number of candidates on the grounds that some of their signatures were invalid, although exactly who he focused on is unclear.
But Illinois law requires that someone objecting to a candidate's nominating papers bring both the original and two duplicates. Gray only brought the original.
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Sad to say, but if we are ever going to beat the Dems we need someone who knows how to play by Alinsky’s rules.
LOL
Trump is in it for Trump.
If signatures are not valid, then it is acting within the law, by the very language and purpose of the election laws of a particular state, to contest questionable or provably fraudulent signatures. There is nothing “crooked” about doing so.
If there were an issue with Democrats having invalid signatures, then how many here would oppose vetting such?
The same people who demand voter ID laws cannot now protest what is essentially the same form of validation when it comes to putting a candidate on a state’s ballot. To object at such a move is to be disingenuous and intellectually dishonest.
Yes, Obama had someone thrown off the ballot in Illinois.
I can’t remember all the details.
I think it was on his run for the state house.
Cruz is in it for Government Sachs.
When you are in a street fight and the guy who is kicking your ass is not playing by the rules, what cha gonna do?
Lie down, curl up and die?
He’s playing for keeps, stay tuned.
Btw, you think playing Tinkerbell when he’s going up against the most corrupt city in America is smart strategy?
Everyone else is in it for somebody else except us.
That’s not only dirty, but it’s stupid since the idiot forgot the duplicate form!
LOL Trump get a hold of your people man.
politics ain’t beanbag
A response to politicians who complain about the rough and tumble of the campaign trail, below-the-belt shots from their opponents or unfair treatment from the media.
It was first uttered by Mr. Dooley, an Irish-American character created by writer Finley Peter Dunne in an 1895 newspaper column. The full quote: “Sure, politics ain’t bean-bag. ‘Tis a man’s game, an’ women, childer, cripples an’ prohybitionists ‘d do well to keep out iv it.â€
http://politicaldictionary.com/words/politics-aint-beanbag/
It was probably one of his democrat friends who told him to do it.
“Approached by the Guardian, Gray referred all questions to campaign spokesman Hope Hicks, who said he “was not available†to the press. Hicks did not respond to follow-up questions from the Guardian.”
Jeez, I wonder why?/sarc
Good for Trump! I hear Kasich did not have enough valid signatures in Illinois and some of them were fraudulent. You want this type of activity to go on?
Put a sock in it, lady. The story does not even provide a source. Just the same, do you object to voter I.D. laws? So, I guess you are quite satisfied to have fraudulent signatures on a ballot? Does you idiocy also apply to fraudulent casting of votes in primary and general elections? You aptly demonstrate the OTT lunacy that qualifies so many Cruz supporters for a TDS designation.
Slice this anyway you like.
Sleazy is still Sleazy no matter who does it.
But Kasich collecting insufficient and fraudulent signatures is not slease?
I can’t wait for the debate tonight!!!
Crippled brains assert crippled logic.
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