Monday, July 3rd, 2006...7:34 am
Yes, Greg, I Suppose You Are Right, but…
So, I walk into Democratic headquarters the other day, and I saw this button that said “Spitzer-Paterson 2006.” I was a bit preturbed, I mean, why would we have buttons for Marc Spitzer and Greg Patterson? In my haste to be angry and everything, I didn’t stop to think that there would be no “ticket” like this, nor did I notice that a “t” was missing.
It turns out, the buttons were for the New York Democratic ticket of Elliot Spitzer and David Paterson. Oops.
And speaking of Espresso Pundit, our man Patterson with two “t”s, he had a bit this weekend about Russ Jones, who’s name may be struck from the ballot. I remember in the run-up to the law suit, it was alleged that he had signed off on the back of petitions he couldn’t have possibly circulated since he was nearly 200 miles away in Phoenix. I don’t know if this was the problem that finally got his signatures bounced, but it is rather common. It happens because either a candidate discovers that their volunteers did not sign the back of their petitions that they had walked, or a candidate wants to be able to brag that they got all the signatures themelves.
Well, Jones may have a problem. The Democrats are also claiming that Jones would even be unable to run in a Republican primary as a write-in. This would leave the Republicans without a viable candidate against Amanda Aguirre. But, Patterson says:
The Republicans are going to have to work hard to mount an effective write in campaign for the Primary, but getting 207 write in votes isn’t that difficult. It looks to me like this is just a bump in the road for Jones…and a fairly small bump at that.
It might be helpful to remind Patterson that getting 207 write-in votes may be easy, but it also shouldn’t be that hard to get 207 valid signatures, right?
1 Comment
July 3rd, 2006 at 8:40 am
You scared me for a second. I thought maybe Tom Patterson had left the Goldwater Institute.
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