by Kathy W.
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May 2, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry's campaign

December 27, 2011 11:35 PM UTC
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WASHINGTON | Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:08pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry's campaign said it will file suit against Virginia to get on the state's 2012 primary election ballot after failing to qualify, U.S. media reported on Tuesday.

Perry failed to get the 10,000 verifiable signatures required to be in the Virginia primary. The Perry campaign said the qualification process was unconstitutional and it would sue to be added to the ballot.

"We believe that the Virginia provisions unconstitutionally restrict the rights of candidates and voters by severely restricting access to the ballot," Perry campaign spokesman Ray Sullivan said in a statement, ABC reported.

"We hope to have those provisions overturned or modified to provide greater ballot access to Virginia voters and the candidates seeking to earn their support," the statement said.

The Virginia Republican Party said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Virginia resident, also failed to meet the Virginia qualification requirement.

Three other members of the Republican field trying to unseat Democratic President Barack Obama - former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum - did not meet the Thursday deadline for submitting petitions.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Texas Congressman Ron Paul qualified for the March primary in Virginia.



Comments: 22

Kathy W. Dec 27, 2011, 11:39pm UTC
Oh. My. Gawd. My sides are killing me. I am laughing SO hard. THIS is what we want running the country? Are you KIDDING me? They probably couldn't get into college without parental intervention. JaySuess Keeeeeerist!

But, I forget... (sorry....) THEY Special. Deadlines, requirements, laws, details: These things don't apply to THEM! 'Cause....THEY Special.

Freaks, Liars and Loons. The Repugnathon Crew.
LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL.

I jes' can't stand it. I have to go take some aspirin now.
((((((((((( GRINS! )))))))))

THIS is what they want, running the country? REALLY?
Karl Leuba Dec 28, 2011, 9:45am UTC
Kathy, sauce for the goose is great on the gander. Don't the Republican'ts understand that if you make it hard to vote -- you make it hard to vote. If you make it hard to get on the ballot -- you make it hard to get on the ballot. The GOP has become the party of exclusion, top to bottom.
Lloyd 'Tony' Cope Dec 28, 2011, 11:54am UTC
Karl, what is so disturbing is how blatant their obstructionism is. They don't even care if we all know what they are trying to do. Plain and simply they are usurping our Democracy as they disenfranchise millions of voters.
Kathy W. Dec 29, 2011, 9:14pm UTC
@Lloyd: "Karl, what is so disturbing is how blatant their obstructionism is. They don't even care if we all know what they are trying to do."

That's pretty sad, and it says something about how dumb they think their voters really are. I am insulted on their behalf...(wasted insultation, I know, but still...are NONE of the Base GOP at all aware of what's going on?...)

Damn. Half the country needs to go back to junior high....and take 4 more years of civics, history, and politics in the American Nation.

I have to go back to school myself...Maybe I'll be a teacher when I grow up! We need some shake n' bake in the schools, I'm a-thinkin'.
W
Lloyd 'Tony' Cope Dec 28, 2011, 12:07am UTC
"We hope to have those provisions overturned or modified to provide greater ballot access to Virginia voters and the candidates seeking to earn their support," the statement said.

What a bunch of BS coming from a member of the party that is trying to do everything in it's power to disenfranchise potential Democratic voters throughout the nation.

In Perry's own home state of Texas they've eliminated college ID's as identification, but allow gun permits.

Get lost Perry. You are a stinking loser. You didn't meet the deadline for submitting petitions and if the table was reversed you'd file suit to stop others from doing what you are trying to do.
Kathy W. Dec 28, 2011, 12:23am UTC
But, NEWT? In his home state? REALLY? How dumb can one group of 10 people be?

I have a bud who said the best thing for the GOP party would be a major bus collision in Iowa....

I'm not that mean, I don't wish death on anyone. Just, maybe some:
1) Humility?
2) Honesty?
3) Silence?
4) Absence?

Whatcha think? The repugs are willing to redraw congressional lines to reconfig the vote; reconfig the voting requirements, and re-order their histories to fit the current (viral, vapid) requirements of their reicht-leaning teabagger zealot party...but to NO avail.

Now they're suing the states because they didn't turn their homework in on time. DAMN. Do they be stoooooopid, or what?
J. Reid Dec 28, 2011, 10:21am UTC
Newt being erased in his home state I all I need to get me through the end of the year, the others on the looser list are just that loosers (I feel badly for Huntsman) I just see Virginia as a signal to the power of the process of weeding out the impossibilities.

The voting suppression they are embracing is yet, another issue!
Kathy W. Dec 28, 2011, 2:15pm UTC
Okay. Yes, the voter suppression efforts leave me stunned but motivated. I worked the polls in 2008 to ensure that we had no issues. We didn't have but 2 issues, and the legal team came out and handled those quickly.
We have a couple months to draw down on the states that are so undemocratic, and I think it may be the Fight of 2012.
We need jobs, right? Guess we need to ensure that all voters have a pic ID.
John Doyle Dec 28, 2011, 12:20am UTC
I can't imagine what the R N C can be thinking unless they have secretly decided the the problems are too vast and just throw the fight and hope for a better climate in 2016
Kathy W. Dec 28, 2011, 12:25am UTC
John, that is exactly what I think, and I wrote a whole (huge) post on it a couple weeks ago....) They don't want to win, because they don't want to work on the problems their idiot-boy-from-Texas created for the whole world.

Also, If they load 40 idiots onto a bus; it doesn't cost them anything but a 4 year delay in their international greed-grab plan.

In the meantime, the fauxnoise sheeple are leaping from the cliff....lemmings into the loam.
Jim G. Dec 28, 2011, 12:27pm UTC
I've said the same thing before & I also think that they purposely lost in 08 by putting McCain out there. The GOP knew that the crap was going to hit the fan after 8 years of Dubya. They can wait another 4 years while our economy really bottoms out.....
Kathy W. Dec 28, 2011, 2:09pm UTC
John, every time I hear a repug refute or abate the TeaBagger Zealots' actions and / or powers, I am reminded of Gomer Pyle' saying: Surprise! Surprise, Surprise!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6_1Pw1xm9U

Yup. Don't think they were expecting to get upstaged, downstaged, and trod upon. Also kinda reminds me of Frankenstein. I made this monster...now, what do I do with it? I can't control it.

Hillarious, if it wasn't impacting the people as badly as it is.
Wilka
Lora Covrett Dec 28, 2011, 3:00am UTC
Looks like Mitt Romney is the guy for the GOP by default -- even the Republicans don't really want him. Poor guy ;)
Lloyd 'Tony' Cope Dec 28, 2011, 12:00pm UTC
Mitt Romney will have to explain how he benefited from downsizing so many companies at the expense of the American worker.

He has to explain why he never questioned a religion that was pro-slavery and treated African Americans as second classed citizens.

He has to explain the difference between RomneyCare and ObamaCare.

He has to explain why he has flip flopped more than anyone running for the Presidency in recent memory.

He has to explain why he is so willing to go to war against Iran when neither he or his 5 sons ever served our nation in a military capacity.

The bottom line is that Romney has no convictions. He will say and do anything to win the Republican nomination for President of the United States of America.
Mooch -. Dec 28, 2011, 12:04pm UTC
>The bottom line is that Romney has no convictions. He will say and do anything to win the Republican nomination for President of the United States of America.<<br>Lloyd, is there a politician anywhere that has convictions? I'm beginning to wonder myself.
Kathy W. Dec 28, 2011, 2:11pm UTC
@ LLoyd...
Mitt the Metronone will also have to explain about 40 other things, too. He shared the worst characteristics of the 1%...
Kathy W. Dec 28, 2011, 2:15pm UTC
@LC, yuppers. And they are NOT happy about it, either. This is SO much fun to watch. The GOPpers are imploding...and they deserve it.
Mooch -. Dec 28, 2011, 12:05pm UTC
Failing to get the signatures required simple as that. Non Issue. Not on the ballot. There is no lawsuit, and if they permit him on the ballot, I have some serious questions about why they have rules and guidelines to begin with.
John S. (arizona) Dec 28, 2011, 12:14pm UTC
Well, each state is different when it comes to the primaries, and they are run by given political Parties. I can guess the plan is to make sure somebody ends up with a majority to eliminate the need for a run-off election? I can kind of see his point though in that state being so hard, but maybe they all should have been working on that issue earlier; and not sure I buy the unconstitutional part. When there are a limited amount of voters to participate, and the field of those running is large, the harder it is to get enough signatures, especially a requirement in every district. What if nobody got enough? I don't understand the write-in clause though frankly, but whatever...
Barb Carlson Dec 28, 2011, 5:49pm UTC
But 10,000 really isn't all that many people for that area, is it? It sounds like they don't want him ...
John S. (arizona) Dec 29, 2011, 10:57am UTC
I don't really disagree or know about the difficulty of numbers, it would appear you're right; and also don't know how that state compares to others either really. Maybe their system is better than others, maybe not? In a way, it seems almost be like a pre-primary before the actual one, LOL. I believe his point was that there were something like a little over 100K registered republicans that voted in the last election there, of which he would have to get some 10K valid signatures, and with that quantity spread over each district required. The more candidates seeking signatures, the harder it is to get them with so many choices, than say if just a couple candidates were trying I suppose.
If the bar is truly much higher there than elsewhere, my own thoughts wondered along the lines that the more money somebody has (or funded party support of some kind) to organize and/or pay people to hit the streets and get them, the better advantage they may have than a lesser established candidate with more limited funds. I'm not sure if he lacked the organization, money, or if just not enough republicans there supported his chance to be on a ballot? Whatever it was, it seems a little late for all this, and more an internal party issue within the state to me than anything.

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