Posted on 12/23/2011 3:44:52 PM PST by TBBT
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry failed to submit enough valid signatures to qualify for the Virginia primary ballot, state GOP officials said Friday evening.
Perry’s campaign told state election officials it had submitted 11,911 signatures, but a Virginia Republican familiar with the situation said that the Texas governor did not submit the required 10,000.
Earlier Friday, the Republican Party of Virginia certified former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) to appear in the March ballot.
Four candidates — Romney, Perry, Paul and former House speaker Newt Gingrich — turned in thousands of signatures by the deadline. State party officials are spending the day certifying the signataries.
They have not examined Gingrich’s signatures yet, but expected to do so by late Friday night.
Candidates had until 5 p.m. to collect 10,000 signatures from across the state, including 400 from each congressional district.
Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum did not submit signatures, according to state GOP officials
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So was Kilgore bought by Romney? What on earth is the chairman of the Perry campaign being so cavalier about, he’s a failure as a state chairman
Yes, I like the 107,321 number. How did you come up with that? Let's put it up to a vote!
Looks like all of the papers are confirming Perry not getting on the ballot now.
The stories as to why are all over the map.
Still no confirmation of Newt getting on the Ballot from the major papers, or from any papers for that matter.
Actually, that is almost a 20 percent buffer; and that really seems like it should be sufficient.
The VA GOP would have to be heartless to disqualify Perry.
I don’t know WTF is going on, but at the moment it appears that Myth and Mr Foamy are the only two on the Va ballot.
Off the top of my head. (I wasn’t wearing my hat, and it that number got caught in my hair. Maybe it’s the number of hairs on my head.....hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............)
I read that unless someone receives 51% of the vote, the delegates are divided proportionately. Wouldn’t this mean that if 3 are on the ballot, it may be worth Perry’s time to run a write in? He’d at least come out of it with something.
One lucky guy!
I was reading Larry Sabato on twitter yesterday and he was talking about how Virginia makes it so difficult. He was saying that they need to change things. I’m in Virginia and disappointed that so many of the candidates don’t even try to get on the ballot.
I have no idea CGG.
As I said earlier it not like Va was going to be a bastion of perry votes anyway
Well something smells pretty rotten when the state chairman sounds so casual about not doing something as basic as making sure there are enough signatures. This guy was bought off or he’s a total incompetent. Either way he needs to have zero chance of a career in politics in the future.
Was his name Jerry Kilgore or Jerry kilperry?
Any one of these people need to have a realistic path to the nomination or there’s no reason to do it.
Kilgore’s an excellent person, i’d have to guess Perry just did not try hard enough here.
We have a much harder and more expensive process here than other states and maybe he thought his time and money was better used elsewhere.
You mean Mitt?
Yeah,he sounds like a piece of work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kilgore_%28politician%29
he lost to Timmy “The Eybrow Kaine
If Kilgore is his state chairman, isn’t it his responsibility to get the signatures? Who counted them originally and said there were 11,191?
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