Ballot Access News: Tea Party Submits Statewide Petition in Pennsylvania
On August 2, a statewide petition for Pennsylvania governor was filed by the Tea Party. The candidate for Governor is John Krupa, who had earlier expected to be the Constitution Party candidate for Governor. The Constitution Party did not feel it had enough funding to complete its own petition. But then a Tea Party group contacted Krupa and asked him to be its gubernatorial candidate, and he accepted.
The petition has approximately 24,000 signatures. The requirement is 19,056.
According to Tea Party Patriots’ national website, John Krupa may be a Democratic
implant. No tea party person has heard of
this man and apparently he has many union
connections. Besides, the tea party has a no
endorse policy (most do anyway). Can somebody in the news biz please do a report? on??
I agree that that’s not enough padding. We just completed a drive for a ballot issue and needed 1200 signatures; we turned in 1698, and 538 were found to be “bad” (even though my personal validation of the first 380 signatures had a much higher success rate). This put us about 40 short. Luckily we were able to add-on in that instance, and added another 68 signatures, which was enough.
“The petition has approximately 24,000 signatures. The requirement is 19,056.”
That’s not a whole lot of padding. Pennsylvania is a challenge state. This means that the election officials don’t check to see if the sigantures are valid unless somebody challenges the signatures. If this petition gets challenged they will need around 80% validity to survive the challenge.
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Sunday Aug 01, 2010 :
FiredUp! posted photographs of Tea Partiers protesting a planned visit from their most enthusiastic champion, Michele Bachmann, on behalf of good ol’ boy Roy Blunt. [Lake: GOP hack]
One sign bears the legend “Save Michele from Blunt Trauma.” This concern about her welfare vis-a-vis Roy Blunt may have come too late though, since Bachmann canceled her trip to Missouri in order to continue what her Website describes as a “full and quick recovery” from a “sudden” illness of an undisclosed nature for which she briefly visited the hospital on Friday.
Bachmann did address Blunt’s volunteers via Skype, but, nevertheless, if I weren’t so obviously averse to malicious speculation, and if her spokesman had not so very carefully indicated otherwise, I might be inclined to think that Bachmann may have already succumbed to a little Blunt trauma before she even got here – and I wouldn’t blame her if she had.
The Tea Partiers I’ve seen are a pretty scary bunch. I wouldn’t want them thinking that I’d been using them and then dissing them.
* Photo showing Bachmann announcing the formation of a congressional Tea Party Caucus
According to the election office, the number of signatures submitted for Krupa was around 22,400. Why didn’t he take the Lt. Gov. candidate with him?
I would like to know which “Tea Party” is running a candidate under their banner. We have been fighting the perception that we are a political party for some time now… and now this.
FWIW:
For the record… the Lehigh Valley 9-12/Tea Party group does not run or endorse candidates.
While I’d like to have seen them work within the Green Party…anybody who can do such a petition drive deserves some respect…
Such a drive is brutal…
Having done it more times than I care to recall…
or a 21st Century American [GOP operated] trojan horse?
Anyone know this Tea Party group’s website?