Claim? I asked a question.
I can routinely get 1K signatures for just about any issue or candidate I wish in a town of 6000 inside a week. I have no special skills to do such I just knock on doors and canvas local gathering places (with permission of the owners of course).
Are you telling me these candidates couldn't get 20 volunteers with my limited signature getting skill set in all of Virginia?
Sorry but I got to believe these guys are falling down on the job.
The following thread had a lot of important info concerning what has happened in Virginia. You should read it in its entirety before making statements.
How do you like those ballot restrictions now? [TEA Partyers unite against this RINO fascism!!]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2824696/posts
In part, the State’s GOP makes up the rules for getting on the primary ballot. If a wannabe candidate submits 15,000+ signatures those petitions shall not be verified (lots of room for fraud, isn’t there?) Any number less than 15,000 and your petitions get the annal exam.
Supposedly, for the first time, a computer was used to verify signatures and addresses on the petitions, and all were thrown out becasue so few matched EVEN those of Romney and Paul. So, Romney and Paul were grandfathered in becasue they were on the 2008 ballot.
The whole situation stinks and there will be, no doubt about it, legal challenges.