Ron "Foamy the Squirrel" Paul, is on the inside track.
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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Read several posters saying there is no write-in option in Virginia. That’s pretty ridiculous. What happened to democracy in the Old Dominion State?
Hold on a tick!
This is starting to make sense... Timmy “The Eyebrow” Kaine runs the state..
Ron “Crazy Eyebrow” Paul gets on the ticket, no questions asked...
There will be other battles my FRiend.
“No but he had a lot more signatures than his people thought they needed. Of course, the petitions are passed by volunteers and some might have done better jobs than other.”
It seems like Rick Perry’s volunteers would know how to count and that Rick Perry would know how many extra signitures he would need.
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.
Probably your analysis is correct. Guiliani made a huge effort in VA in 2008 with having attorneys assigned and verifying signatures before they were ever turned in.
Virginia’s 49 delegates are 4.02% of the 1144 or so that are needed for the GOP nomination. It appears to me that Perry’s campaign wasn’t up to the challenge and took the process lightly. After all Romney and Paul turned in a few thousand more signatures each than did Perry.
Ron "Foamy the Squirrel" Paul, is on the inside track.
It's an eternal shame that you have to explain it. Reading this thread one would think that it's the candidate himself who walks the skidrow streets begging passers-by and liquor store employees for signatures.
(Just as many think that it's the candidates' or President's own words that a candidate or President reads off a page or a teleprompter. Puppet show, and you think that the puppet speaks to you individually from TV screen. Hey, it looks you straight in the eye.)
The rules for getting on the VA GOP primary ballot were set by the RPV, where Perry enjoys support among its leadership. It is up to the candidates’ campaigns to get the proper number of qualified voters’ signatures. The rules for qualifying are stringent but straightforward: 10K signatures of registered VA voters, including at least 400 registered voters in each of the 11 Congressional Districts.
All these conspiracy theories, calls for legal challenges, suggestions of corruption etc. are way out of line. All the candidates knew, or should have known, the rules. If they chose not to submit petitions (Huntsman/Bachmann/Santorum) or didn’t get the right number of registered voters’ signatures (Perry) it’s the candidate’s team that erred, not the RPV.
VA is only one of fifty states. Unlike 2000, its primary won’t make that much difference in the outcome.
And the dip his poll numbers a few weeks ago was just at the worse time for his effort here.
He has a lot of friends in office here and he’d have gotten a number of votes, probably mine.
It’s all very surprising.
I agree. The bar should not be set so high as to act as a barrier to legitimate national candidates.
I can hardly wait for him to run up Mitts pant leg! LoL!
Santorum is a VA native and does or has lived in the state. Maybe he had no money to pursue this requirement. I would imagine though that Virginians, being a respecter of “his turn”, are in the bag for Romney. They are more liberal there than their reputation would indicate.
I want to know what happened to 5,000 signatures.
Indeed FRiend, I think America is owed and explanation.
You can bet it will be blamed on Perry.
GOP establishment is really in the trenches for the Romulan!
I wonder how many pages of signatures they had to ‘lose?’
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And it’s not looking good for Newt.
No word from the VaGop yet.
Maybe we can call off our primary and spend the money on drinks!
He could have been sabotaged by an organized effort to sign phony names.
Still, no confirmation of Newt on the ballot.
I wish they were all on the ballot here too, though I want Newt to win. Last time around about 500,000 votes were cast and Ron Paul got 22,000. I think one of two things happened. Perry, Santorum, Bachmann, Huntsman, expect to drop out before the primary and they’re in it still only for future political aspirations. The other is their polling is so low in Virginia that they simply felt is was futile to try.
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