If my information is incorrect, im GLAD. This committeeman’s information was actually told to me pre-nomination. He said that Clymer told him, “If Keyes does not win, I will not put money into the petitioning effort”. I’ve no idea if that is true, or how Clymer spent his money–only that this committeeman was in a position to hear such information and is a reliable source for me.

Its not something I can confirm with anyone of importance. Everyone has been tight lipped about it. One national committeemember from PA told me this and I havent heard since. Id imagine that if it came up Clymer would just say he was “short on money” at the time and couldnt afford to help.”

Sorry, but this is an enormous load of crap! It wasn’t for lack of money and certainly not any kind of “withholding of money” that our ballot access drive failed in the Keystone state…though lack of money did hurt us other states, particularly in the east.

The reasons we failed here was:

1) The volunteer effort fell far short of what we got 4 years before for a far lesser candidate–Peroutka, mostly because many of the Ron Paul supporters in the party who we were depending on claimed they were “burnt out” from that campaign and had no energy to go out and get petition signatures (and we didn’t find out how severe the problem was until very late); 2) We got a bit later start than we wanted due to some errors made on the original petitions; 3) Two principal paid petitioners came in substantially under the estimates they were providing; 4) Our petition oversight obviously, to these factors, turned out to be inadequate.

A lot of money was put into PA, especially in the last week when we recruited Naders petitioners (who were done) to help acquire thousands of signatures in a last ditch effort in Philadelphia that nearly made it.

Mistakes were definitely made, but the idea that money was withheld in PA “by the chairman” is hysterically off the mark. It is probably the one thing that did NOT go wrong.

Please, somebody, tell me: Where does this stuff come from???

Its not something I can confirm with anyone of importance. Everyone has been tight lipped about it. One national committeemember from PA told me this and I havent heard since. Id imagine that if it came up Clymer would just say he was “short on money” at the time and couldnt afford to help.

Trent, is there a place where I can get more details on this? I didn’t see a news story on this at IPR, although it is possible I missed it altogether…

Also–the fact that Jim Clymer decided not to help the petitioning effort in order to express his displeasure with how the Convention treated Alan Keyes (whom Clymer served as legal advisor to).

Too bad due to the two party duopoly the CP of PA didn’t get the ballot line.”

The fact that the Constitution Party of Pennsylvania did not start their ballot access petitioning until sometime in May or June when they could have started in the middle of February had something to do with it as well.