Posted on 08/01/2006 2:06:36 AM PDT by RWR8189
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Thanks to the generosity of GOP donors, a Green Party candidate is expected to make it onto the ballot in Pennsylvania's Senate race and siphon votes from Democratic front-runner Bob Casey in his bid to unseat Republican Sen. Rick Santorum.
While Santorum said Monday that he would welcome another candidate on the ballot, Casey's campaign accused Republicans of "trying to steal the election."
Green Party candidate Carl Romanelli, making his first bid for statewide elective office, acknowledged Monday that Republican contributors probably supplied most of the $100,000 that he said he spent gathering signatures to qualify for the Nov. 7 ballot.
Romanelli said he expects to turn in far more than the required 67,070 signatures by Tuesday's deadline.
"I have friends in all political parties. It's just that my Republican friends are more confident about standing with me than my Democratic friends. And as a group, my Republican friends are a little better off," he said in a telephone interview.
Romanelli, of Wilkes-Barre, supports abortion rights, while both Santorum and Casey oppose them. Political observers say Romanelli's candidacy would likely draw votes from Casey, the state treasurer, who has held a double-digit lead over Santorum for months.
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There's Democrat logic for ya: Increasing the choices one gets to make "democratically" is stealing the election. Only an entitled class feels an election is "stolen" from them by giving the public more choices.
The Dumbs sure didn't feel that way in '92. They were all for that infamous third party guy ROSS who? Amen.
What goes around comes around.
"What goes around comes around."
Whether we want it to or not. I do expect the liberals to file suit over 'dirty' money.
This type of cynical action is what gives politics a bad name. The Dems wrote the book on cynical action, but it doesn't make it right. Go Santorum!
Actually it is the pro choice crowd that wanted this guy on the ballot. They have been crying that there is no pro choice 'choice', since both Santorum and Casey are pro life. Probably gonna siphon a lot of votes there.
Gee now how could THIS be, alan simpson says WE are the stupid party?
Democrats have been doing this for years with libertarian candidates it just doesn't get reported.
I'm a Libertarian who lives in PA. If there's no Libertarian on the ballot, I will vote Green Party.
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