Get local Tea Partiers taking here in his district off the record and you might here he is more of an Establishment Republican than a Conservative. To be honest, I was even thinking of voting for his opponent as a protest vote. Their is more but not for here...
This looks like sabotage from his own base. If a guy needs 2000 signatures, and 1000 are tossed outoo, that means either his campaign was not doing its job (laziness, fraud) or somebody was deliberately submitting bogus signatures.
Cause no one does it better than this...