Virginia AG to Intervene in GOP Primary Ballot Controversy
- Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:02pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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After learning that his candidate’s name would be omitted from the Virginia primary ballot, the campaign director for former Speaker of the House and Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich compared the “unexpected setback” to Pearl Harbor.
Not to worry, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to the rescue!
Fox News reports that the Republican AG is intervening in his state’s presidential primary dispute, and plans to file emergency legislation to address the inability five Republican presidential candidates have in getting their name on the ballot.
“The failure of other candidates to qualify led to complaints that the 10,000-signature requirement is too stringent.
Cuccinelli, who is a Republican, shared the concerns and plans to take them to the legislature while the candidates work through the courts.
‘Recent events have underscored that our system is deficient,’ he said in a statement Saturday. ‘Virginia owes her citizens a better process. We can do it in time for the March primary if we resolve to do so quickly.’
Cuccinelli’s proposal is expected to state that if the Virginia Board of Elections certifies that a candidate is receiving federal matching funds, or has qualified to receive them, that candidate will upon request be automatically added to the ballot.”
The Virginian-Pilot reports that according to the state constitution, emergency legislation must gather a supermajority of four-fifths votes from the state House and the Senate, as well as Governor Bob McDonnell’s signature to pass.
Under the current system, only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul have qualified for the primary. Fox reports that Two former Democratic attorneys general are backing the move, along with a former Democratic state party chairman and a former Republican state party chairman.
A spokesman for Gov. McDonnell told Fox that the governor is”open to reviewing how Virginia’s primary system can be improved to provide voters with more choices.”
Still, McDonnell’s spokesman Tucker Martin reiterated “Virginia’s laws regarding ballot access are well known and have been in place for many years.
“All candidates seeking to be listed on the Virginia primary ballot in a statewide race have known the requirements well in advance.”
The state’s 49 delegates will be up for grabs on “Super Tuesday,” March 6, 2012.
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Comments (61)
MrMagoo
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 4:42am“Virginia’s laws regarding ballot access are well known and have been in place for many years.”
Virginia needs a HARD KICK up her rearend,then.Snobbish,elitist bastards you are.Hells bells,all the States should be so full of self protecting *excrement*.Just because DC resides in your territory?
Its no wonder your despised .
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 6:26amDC resides on Marylands side of the Potomac. Maryland is known for its welfare program (at least as liberal as DCs) and for its crooked politicians. The only state that rivals it for crooked politicians in Illinois.
OMG
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:26amThere is no controversy.
They were late. End of story. They get no special treatment.
Next?
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 12:35pmhttp://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ron_Paul%27s_1987_Resignation_Letter_to_the_RNC
If ron poawl is on the ballot everyone should be on the ballot..
paul quit the party to assault then Pres Reagan after Reagan goy him elected and kept him in congress..
He’s a quitter and a backstabber.
Report Post »NoNannyState4me
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 12:44pmDitto what Vmace said;
There is no controversy.
They were late. End of story. They get no special treatment.
Next?
Report Post »c0mm0nsense
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:18pmIt just keeps getting better. Now the AG of Virginia drafts the laws? All this just because 5 of the Candidates, which one of them lives there (newt) and another owns a home there (Santorum) couldn’t muster up 10,000 sigs out of a population of over 8 million people. How are these 5 Newt, Bachmann, Huntsman, Perry and Santorum ever going be able to handle a job as big as the President of The United States, when they can even get on the Ballot of Virginia. And now they are going to sue. Sure these 5 are in the right party?
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:10amCommon Sense also tells us that if 5 out of 7 nationally recognized official candidates can’t get on the ballot in Virginia– something is fishy with Virginia’s system.
Report Post »johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:16amYou guys just don’t quite have your arms wrapped around this one. Cuccinelli won’t tackle the Muslim Brotherhood encampments of CAIR, ISNA and NAIT on the banks of the Potomac, so he has the time to muster a few headlines for the benefit of his run for governor. The “great unwashed” won’t be able to tell the difference. They may divert their attention from the latest Kim Kardashian episode to pull a lever. So Cuccinelli tries to grab some cranium space in their cow-like lives.
I challenged Cuccinelli in a TWO registered letters to pursue the “unindicted co-conspirators” from the Holy Land Foundation terror trial who operate in VA. As you are well aware, Holder, Obama, Soros, et al, won’t listen to a federal judge and clean the clocks of that whole bunch. Why won’t they act? Saudi campaign cash, my brother!
So I also sent RRR letters to McDonnell, Cuccinelli, Webb, Warner, Rigell and Obama and they all told me to go _ _ _ _ myself. They are all ready to sell-out this country by treating the MB as just another political special interest group to get the funds funneled through the MB. Notice that I use the cllective “they” because there really is not a dime‘s worth of difference between R’s and D’s.
Report Post »Warpig-0311
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 2:08amAs a resident of Virginia, I don’t think Newt should be on the ballot. The law says you have to have 10,000 signatures. You must have 10,000 signatures. He didn’t get 10,000. And because the rule of law is stopping him from getting his way, he wants to change the law. Because the RINO‘s and Neoconservatives that govern the Commonweath didn’t get their good ole boy on the ballet, they want to change the law. This is the same crap the libs in on the Hill pull when they don’t get their way. Why doesn’t Newt just “deem” himself on the ballot?
Report Post »Ohello
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 2:54amWell So What?? Why would 10,000 signatures mean anything, after all, the Constitution says you have to be natural born citizen to be president, otherwise we could inadvertently elect someone from another region of the world who might have designs on collapsing the economy. Obama was raised a communist, trained as an islamist, and went to church for 20 years listening to Marxist base Liberation Theology. That would make him the first communislamarxist president in the history of the USA.
Report Post »msbs05
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 4:23pmNewt did get 10,000 signatures. He actually got over 11,000. However, the state party threw out enough (nearly 2000) because they didnt have proper address on them, although they refused to release which signatures they threw out so they could be validated. They also did not say how they determined the addresses were not valid. It is suspicious enough to me that I think the AG needs to intervene.
Report Post »rossi_thomas
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 12:34amSo the GOP is going to tell the voters what Candidates are going on the ticket?
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 6:31amI agree Virgina’s laws are well known…if you want to get in the game ..play by the rules..10000 votes in a state the size of virginia should be easy too collect..if you want to be on the ballot;go get your signatures on time
Report Post »NV_RICK
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:41pmDont these people now the rules what 10,000 signatures come on in Nevada Harry Reid would just send a croney to forgem by noon go to any casino and force all the illegals to sign or get fired and what abot acorn i;m sure they would be glad to help the GOP I say TO BAD
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 10:13amDon’t these people know the rules? What, 10,000 signatures? Come on! In Nevada Harry Reid would just send a crony to forge by noon, go to any casino and force all the illegals to sign or get fired, and what about ACORN? I;m sure they would be glad to help the GOP. I say TO BAD.
Report Post »johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:38pmWell, since Ken Cuccinelli refuses to cleanse the Muslim Brotherhood from Virginia, I guess that he can empty the trash cans around the Capital and put on a dog and pony show about the ballots.
I have sent RRR letters to Cuccinelli demanding that he get off his ass and move on CAIR, ISNA and NAIT for being “unindicted co-conspirators” in the HLF terror trial. I sent him a RRR letter just this month calling him the “emptiest of all the empty suits.” In case you VA residents might be wondering, his boss, Governor Bob McDonnell, told me that it was Cuccinelli’s job, NOT HIS!
How’s that for leadership? And they wonder why I call them REPUBLICRATS!
Report Post »AhLeahIris
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:59pmThis whole thing is insane. How can we trust the Virginia GOP? http://wp.me/p1HGwx-1Qj
Report Post »jzs
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:51pmSomebody explain this to me. The Virginia requirements have been in place for years. Nobody had a problem four years ago. Now, suddenly, candidates are suing saying the requirements are “unconstitutional.”
Here’s my conclusion and feel free to disagree. Only Romney and Paul had the organizations and the brains in Virginia to meet their fairly easy requirements for getting on the ballot.
So the the candidates who didn’t get on the ballot want to change the rules, they’ve decided they like the rules. Gingrich is even claiming that an ACORN volunteer committed voter fraud, which he said is a “mistake.”
Anyway, do you really want to elect one of these guys for President of the United States, when they can’t even figure out how get on the ballot for state? These couldn’t run an organization competent enough to get them on a ballot, and then complain the rules aren’t fair, and you want them to be leader of the free world?
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 5:03amThe Holy Land Foundation was a federal case tried in Texas, why the hell do you think that the State Attorney General of Virginia should have anything to do with who is and isn’t indicted?
Report Post »WiredRight
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:26pmI wonder if the AG would intervene if Paul was the only one not to get on the ballot?
Report Post »Blazer123
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:34pmobviously not. If you‘re not organized enough to get on the ballot I don’t think I want you in the White House.
Silly law or not, it’s not new.
“Still, McDonnell’s spokesman Tucker Martin reiterated “Virginia’s laws regarding ballot access are well known and have been in place for many years.”
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:55pmIf you “Stick to the Rules” people, were as tough on DEMOCRATS, we might not be in such a mess. I thought being able to vote for the person of your choice was a tenant of the Republican Party? It’s the DEMOCRATS who stifle or miscount the votes, Right?
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:54pmyep, pretty lame..
Report Post »Cuthalu
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:42pmHow can we really be suprised the RINO’s come out in full force and are pulling out all the stops to game the system, again just like the progressives they really are? How pathetic.
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:40pmAmerica it is Time to follow the words of Thomas Jefferson …
“…And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. “”
Let’s Make America Great again and Throw these Worthless Slimebags out…
It is Time to kick the Tires and Light the dam Fires…
Seriously , People Pick a Dam Date. Please This Country is Dying .
What the Hell does it take …?
Btw …The Border is Wide Open …
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:47pmTorches and Pitchforks will be handed out if needed…
Remember, BYOR…bring your own Rope…
Whole lotta Windchimes to set up…
Report Post »JD0341
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:38pmThese idiots need not be on the ballot if they can’t get the signatures. Paul and Romney got it done. Obviously, both parties were able to get it done for the past presidential election. So, what’s the problem? I mean, aside from a corrupt AG trying score points with the establishment GOP losers…
Sounds like when the Dems in MA got their law passed allowing the Gov. to assign people to senate seats that were suddenly vacated. That is, until that murdering bastard Ted Kennedy died and there was an R as Gov.
Anyone who thinks that the AG getting these morons on the ballot is a good idea, needs to pull their head out the GOP’s butt long enough to get some oxygen to their brains and have a coherent though of their own.
Report Post »fallguy80
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:33pmThis is absurd! How long have they had a primary in Virginia? There hasn’t seemed to be a problem before. It seems to me like the other candidates just wrote off the state. Besides, if 10,000 signatures are too tough to get, how is Ron Paul get them? Isn’t he supposed to be some fringe candidate that nobody would vote for? Would the AG be getting involved if it were Paul that was left off the ballot. What a sham!!
Report Post »I Love Freedom
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:57pmIt just goes to show you who is proped up by the media and rush, hanity, levin, and who has the peoples support. Without the support they would be out of the race by now
Report Post »spankadonkey
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 2:10amIf Ron FRAUD Paul were the only who failed to qualify, I would hope the AG would not mess with the requirements. Ron FRAUD Paul – What a guy.
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:32pmDokken -Breaking the Chains.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nQb1t_Yw0S8
for your listening enjoyment
Report Post »theprofessor1031
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:38pmLOL! This is the only cover song my band plays!
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:44pmnice…
Report Post »PleaseStartBrainb4engagingmouth
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:30pmWhat is so difficult with getting 10,000 signatures? Heck here in Wisconsin the liberals trying to recall our governer could get 10,000 signatures if they just use all the Mickey M‘s and Adolf H’s…. How hard can it be to get 10,000 signatures?
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:29pmSpanky said What…?
Report Post »Maxim Crux
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:29pmanother reason not to vote for newt. tired of the corruption. This AG needs to go
Report Post »gdbhusker
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:27pmThis is a huge sham……The Rules that Virginians have asked for, have been in place for many years.. I find it ODD that now the AG’s candidate was to IRRESPONSIBLE to get on the ballot, they want to change the laws…. people wake up…this is how both parties operate!!! this should show you that they are just two sides of the same coin, hell bent to destroy the law and the will of the people..
Report Post »Celeste.Christi
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:38pmAh – No.
Report Post »The rules changed in October 2011.
gdbhusker
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:25pmOops…yeah I just checked that…sorry…..I stand corrected on the date….but not the rest of my statement….thank you Celeste…..
Report Post »Joseph28
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:25pmCause rules just dont apply to the newt
Report Post »Firefighter 538
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:20pmLooks like the RINOs didn’t have ACORN to get their signatures.
Report Post »gothope
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:19pmI thought Paul supporters are for states rights apparently a states right to kill a baby is more important than changing election law
Report Post »I Love Freedom
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:05pmNo, having more RHINO’s, big goverment loving, big spending, world policing republican would be a benefit to Ron Paul. I say bring them all on and show the world rules are for suckers
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:18pmGood luck cucch and good luck on super tuesday Va lead the way
Report Post »PleaseStartBrainb4engagingmouth
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:17pmOk if you can’t figure out how to get on the ballot I think you are already scoring less that a perfect score … unless they started to grade candidates on a curve… ( which might be a good idea with this group of GOP candidates )
Report Post »mrsalvage2
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:15pmLooks like all the Progressives‘ horses and all the Progressives’ Men need to get all of the other People on the Ballot.
Things are just getting ‘curiouser and curiouser’ to quote Alice in Wonderland.
I hope people are beginning to see how TERRIFIED the Progressive Two Thug System is right now.
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:33pm2- Headed Snake…
Report Post »watashbuddyfriend
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:13pmThanks, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for standing up, NOW, once they are on the ballot, LET THE VOTERS decide!
Report Post »Celeste.Christi
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:40pmThat’s the American Way! Good for You.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:23pmIf these candidate couldn’t get 10,000 signatures, when others did, then the people have already spoken.
Report Post »No matter, the globalist elite know their time for RULERSHIP is a mere seven years, and times running out fast to get that many. So no, much as I wish Ron Paul would win and this nation could reverse it’s course, I know better. But Ron Paul will get my voice and my vote nevertheless, and I’ve no love of this plane of existence that I might care what the globalist cabal might think or do about my stand. Even if he runs third party, I will not add my vote to an evil, even to a lesser one.
I am at peace with all men, I forgive all whom have ever harmed me in any way, I shall not bring accusations to the judgement throne of GOD. That being said, men have waged war against me for decades, slander, defamation, and maligning of character, but Jesus was and is much greater than these, and he has been my portion. Thank you Lord for the abundant blessing you pored out upon my family this year, in abundance, love, and lessons to learn that brought me wisdom and greater faith.
In this new year, I pray that GOD watch over and keep you all, and shelter you under HIS wings. If you have yet to choose for Jesus, take time now in the still of your mind, and pray that GOD might show forth the truth in HIS son to you.
Napoli and blessed New Year to all.
justangry
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:13pmSo now it’s the required amount of signatures or enough money. Nice!
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