Isn’t he the same guy who screwed his constituents by keeping people off the ballot with last minute shenanigans?
Hence, he’s on the short list.
sorry, those who wanted to be on the ballot should have had themselves in order, following the requirements to get on there. For God’s sake, Ron Paul got on! bob mcdonnell is a great conservative.
That is a fiction, unfortunately repeated and believed by too many people here. The truth is hard to recover once the conspiracies and fictions have been spread far and wide.
Perry and Gingrich were “kept off the ballot” by virtue of not submitting 10,000 valid signatures, as required by long-standing Virginia law.
Santorum was “kept off the ballot” by virtue of not having actually submitted ANY signatures, or other paperwork, to be put on the ballot.
Thus, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul were the only two on the ballot, because they both submitted the required number of valid signatures.
We just had a senate primary, and 4 people, including 3 little-known names, two of whom weren’t even politicians, all were able to submit more than 15,000 signatures each for the office. Thus two people who never did politics were able to get 50% more signatures than Perry and Gingrich.
Do I wish we could have changed the law so the signatures weren’t needed, or we could have write-ins? Certainly. But there were no “shenanigans” involved that kept people from submitting enough signatures. Perry and Gingrich knew what they needed, and failed to deliver.