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To: Jim Robinson; tips up; onyx; VinL; Tribune7; Gator113; Leep; ConfidentConservative; McBuff; ...
Something stinks to high heaven when petition-reviewers have to wait until 2am on a Saturday morning to announce their 1st-time-ever microscopic-scrutiny of voter signatures. It smells like the New Hampshire Secretary of State's office.

So, the good people of Virginia are going to be disenfranchised of their right to nominate their home-resident?

Gingrich owns only one modest HOME, and it is in Virginia. (Of all the GOP candidates, only Ron Paul's home in Texas is smaller)



The carpet-bagger Romney until recently, owned four MANSIONS, and none of them are/were in Virginia. He recently sold two, (apparently because that would look bad? ...or maybe because he spent $42 Million of his own cash in 2008 running for President?)
  • Romney to nearly quadruple mansion's size

    Aug 22, 2011 –
    ... Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is planning to nearly quadruple the size of his $12 million California beachfront mansion.


  • Mitt Romney's New Hampshire Mansion

    Oct 28 2011 -

    The former Massachusetts governor is leading in Granite State polls. He also owns a $10 million lakefront house there.



  • Romney's Park City [Deer Valley, Utah] Mansion is burglarized

    Feb 26, 2009 -
    Mitt Romney's home in Park City was burglarized between Jan. 5 and Feb. 17. Nearly 20 pieces of jewelry were stolen.

    Police ... said the value of the stolen jewels has not been assessed yet. "I doubt that any of it's Zirconium," he said. "It would be a fairly substantial loss."

    Romney recently placed the 11-acre, 9,500-square-foot, seven-bedroom, 81/2-bathroom property with views of Jordanelle and the Uinta Mountains up for sale.


    [from a different story] According to the Boston Globe and CNN, the former governor of Massachusetts and his wife, Ann, have recently put two of their four homes (read: mansions) up for sale. The first, a luxurious ski “cabin” in Deer Valley that overlooks a reservoir and mountains and comes fully furnished with custom fixtures, fireplace screens, and eight full bathrooms.

  • The second high-profile Romney family home for sale is in Belmont, MA and is located at 171 Marsh St., Belmont, MA. This is where the Romney’s raised their five sons, all grown and out of the nest.

    Worth over an estimated $200 million, Mitt Romney and family deny that they are selling because of the recession or because of the $42 million the former governor spent on his presidential campaign.



It should be obvious that Obama's current "war on the rich" is aimed toward a mid-2012 war against the person he believes will be the GOP nominee - Romney!


Are we to believe that the people of Virgina, (who have a lot of vested interest in keeping a strong military), they are to be given ONLY two GOP choices?
  • A) an abortionist, lying obomneycare gay-marriage activist, rich Mormon weasel, who says anything to get elected, OR
  • B) a tin-foil hat tri-lateral commission kook who wants to destroy our military defense (even worse than Obama), let Israel die, and legalize drug use

I think not. And either...:
- A judge will find the the voter's franchise must weigh higher than slight technical difficulties in petitions
- OR Newt will just have to win his home state's delegates by write-ins.
It worked for SENATOR Lisa Murkowski, who won by write-ins.

I could understand if the Gingrich campaign was BILLED the extra costs of verifying signatures without 'proper' addresses. (Those signatures would only need to be 'sampled' by a GOP panel to prove they were legitimate VA voters). I am confident those would be proven legitimate in great enough quantities, for Gingrich to be on the ballot.



( Gingrich-haters, please do not address or reply to me.)

245 posted on 12/24/2011 1:31:55 PM PST by Future Useless Eater (Chicago politics = corrupted capitalism = takeover by COMMUNity-ISM)
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To: Future Useless Eater

Anyone that doesn’t know the address they are registered at is too stupid to be taking up space on this planet!


258 posted on 12/24/2011 2:01:41 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Future Useless Eater

No such right exists. The party has the right to choose their nominee. They have the right to detemine the rules by which their nominee is selected.


260 posted on 12/24/2011 2:05:43 PM PST by BenKenobi (You know, you really need to break free of that Catholic mindset.- metmom)
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To: Future Useless Eater

I hope you’re right and the courts allow both Gingrich and Perry on the ballot. While my ox isn’t the one being gored here, I still don’t like it one little bit. I think it’s fundamentally wrong. I’m not optimistic about a court challenge, though.

As for allowing a write-in, it’s not required by VA law.


340 posted on 12/24/2011 7:29:19 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (The gop is as much a plantation for conservatives as the 'rat party is for blacks.)
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To: Future Useless Eater

I don’t care that Romney is wealthy. I admire that.

I DO bloody mind that a Romney robot has apparently changed the prior (2008 and before) means of signature-checking, without notice to OTHER candidates, at the last minute!!!


392 posted on 12/25/2011 8:45:42 PM PST by pogo101
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