Sorry to you and Jim, but facebook is not how we put candidates on the ballot in Virginia, and we also don’t put candidates on the ballot because people throw tantrums, have fits, or think the rules are “too hard”.
If there was actual mischief, we will find it and correct it. If Perry and Gingrich didn’t turn in 10,000 valid signatures of registered voters, they didn’t qualify. Those are the laws, and last I looked conservatives were the ones who lived by the rule of law, not by emotion and protest.
What’s next, are you all going to come and do an “OWS” sit-in at RPV headquarters and hold your breath until you get your way? Seriously guys. I’m sure each candidate will make a formal request, and the RPV will consider those requests, but the organization is not RINO, it is not corrupt, it is not arbitrarily eliminating Newt because of some vast left-wing conspiracy.
All he needed was 15,000 signatures. Nobody could stop him from collecting that many signatures.
Thanks (for all the good you comments will do) I am almost bald from pulling my hair out today reading a lot of these threads and ill-informed comments! Sheesh, it was MY franchise and yours that were knocked out with all this, but folks from across the country are convinced it’s all a RINO conspiracy .. if only they knew the first thing about the people they are condemning. It was the Gingrich and Perry campaigns that messed up, no one else. They did too little, too late. Period.
There is more to the technicality than that, I am told. So many signatures have to be gotten from every precinct. Even in areas that are so Ratty they could be mistaken for laboratories.
According to RVP officials in this story, they hadn't even heard a whisper that Gingrich even had started collected signatures, and again, that was over a month ago.
Virginia Republicans have a choice between Mittens and the Fruitcake. If you think that is acceptable, then your values differ from mine.
What the Virginia GOP did favors those with a long-term organization and lots of cash.