Posted on 12/23/2011 3:44:52 PM PST by TBBT
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry failed to submit enough valid signatures to qualify for the Virginia primary ballot, state GOP officials said Friday evening.
Perrys campaign told state election officials it had submitted 11,911 signatures, but a Virginia Republican familiar with the situation said that the Texas governor did not submit the required 10,000.
Earlier Friday, the Republican Party of Virginia certified former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) to appear in the March ballot.
Four candidates Romney, Perry, Paul and former House speaker Newt Gingrich turned in thousands of signatures by the deadline. State party officials are spending the day certifying the signataries.
They have not examined Gingrichs signatures yet, but expected to do so by late Friday night.
Candidates had until 5 p.m. to collect 10,000 signatures from across the state, including 400 from each congressional district.
Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum did not submit signatures, according to state GOP officials
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“No, I believe in a limited government and one that we can afford. You are certainly not a conservative if you support these huge, unsustainable programs like Medicare. You want society to support your father. You are a statist and socialist. As Margret Thatcher supposedly said, “Socialism is fine, but eventually you run out of other people’s money.” As someone who has lived 13 years in five European countries, what we are witnessing in places like Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, etc. is the collapse of the welfare state. Governments can no longer keep the promises they have made. We are in the same boat, my dear. Wake up and smell the coffee.”
And merry Christmas to you, too!
Such a strange circumstance. It’s incestuous stuff like this that makes people so sour about politics. Heads they win, tails you lose.
2 candidates on the ballot, 2 other candidates tried and somehow didn’t get enough qualifying signatures.
I’ll think what I want.
Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, you know what they say ... but it would be nice to have some facts to back up one’s opinion instead of wild speculation and conspiracy theories. To each his own.
Sorry, I have answers for none of the above questions, but he is kind of cute and funny.
Satin Doll, so many of these younger folks are falling for the divide and conquer plan of the Paulinistas.
Setting one generation against another is Communistic.
Where would these younger folks be without the incessant sacrifices of the Greatest Generation?
I suppose they would all be speaking German—or Russian!
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