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You beat me to it! Just heard this on Fox news. GREAT NEWS!!

Between Perry and Gingrich taking action...maybe they will be included on the polls. Wouldn’t that make Sabato, Rove and the Romney campaign madder than a bull grazing on astro turf

Why is this great news? Rick Perry is an idiot and has no more business in this race than Mitt.

what a putrid writer, this Zeke Miller. You can tell he is a liberal punk.

He calls Gingrich "another one-time GOP frontrunner" ... duh, how about "THE GOP frontrunner"

He implies Perry ONLY submitted 6,000 of the required 10,000, so ANYONE reading the story would have NO SYMPATHY for Perry and think him a kook for the lawsuit.

On Friday, per the WashPo, "Perry’s campaign told state election officials it had submitted 11,911 signatures" Does that mean OTHERS submitted the remaining 5,911 for him? Does it mean that 6,000 were disqualified for having an out-of-state gatherer?

How about pointing out relevant facts Mister Zeke Miller? like...

For STATE offices, Virginia law requires the petition gatherer to be "a qualified voter, or qualified to register to vote, for the office for which he is circulating the petition". THAT does not mean he has to be a Virginia resident, just someone qualified to vote for President. § 24.2-506 ... But more importantly... Presidential primaries have a SEPARATE controlling law: ( § 24.2-545 ) there is no such requirement at all for the petitioner. The petition gatherer could be from Abu Dabi and not even a citizen.

Virginia law also REQUIRES an address on petitions for state offices: § 24.2-506
...signed by the number of qualified voters specified below after January 1 of the year in which the election is held and listing the residence address of each such voter.

Virginia law does NOT require an address on petitions for Presidential Primaries: § 24.2-545

This law regulating primary signatures is clearly separate. § 24.2-545 specifically does NOT require addresses, nor the signatures to be taken after January 1st.
B. Any person seeking the nomination of the national political party for the office of President of the United States, or any group organized in this Commonwealth on behalf of, and with the consent of such person, may file with the State Board petitions signed by at least 10,000 qualified voters, including at least 400 qualified voters from each congressional district in the Commonwealth, who attest that they intend to participate in the primary of the same political party as the candidate for whom the petitions are filed. Such petitions shall be filed with the State Board by the primary filing deadline. The petitions shall be on a form prescribed by the State Board and shall be sealed in one or more containers to which is attached a written statement giving the name of the presidential candidate and the number of signatures on the petitions contained in the containers. Such person or group shall also attach a list of the names of persons who would be elected delegates and alternate delegates to the political party’s national convention if the person wins the primary and the party has determined that its delegates will be selected pursuant to the primary. The slate of delegates and alternates shall comply with the rules of the national and state party.
It is reasonable for some voters to understand that Virginia law has NEVER required the address on those primary petitions. It is optional, just like the SSN on the presidential petition form is also optional.

OR point out there was a recent Virginia court precedent where a petition gatherer was slightly in error on something, and the judge ruled that the voter should not be disenfranchised. The voter's intent to sign the petition outweighed the slight technical difficulty.

QUESTION: Shouldn't Newt be filing a similar lawsuit? Isn't it likely that Perry will get judicial relief but not others who do not complain? Wouldn't greater numbers of legal challenges help tip the scales?

Then, there is also the issue of the last-minute change.

http://www.rpv.org/sites/default/files/2012%20Petition%20Certification%20Process_1.pdf

This un-dated "Safe Harbor" letter is the smoking gun that could sink Romney-conspirators in the Virginia R.P. office, including

Executive director: David Rexrode,

Chairman: Pat Mullins,

and maybe even Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling

Gideon7 correctly pointed out that the letter was CREATED in WORD on 12/21/2011.
Some freepers have suggested maybe that's just the date the letter was scanned, but no way... You can tell by zooming in close with a PDF editor that the characters and images are all perfect. This was not a scanned document.

It was, as the document indicates internally, CREATED on 12/21/2011 using Microsoft WORD.

Furthermore, the file also indicates the Author. Just open up this file with WordPad, and search for "2011", and on that line you will find the author...

<</Author(Dave Rexrode) ...... /CreationDate(D:20111221100053-05'00') /ModDate(D:20111221100053-05'00')

Why this is important is that ONE DAY EARLIER, Tuesday 12/20, Lt. Gov. Bolling had personally delivered 16,026 petitions for Romney. This letter guarantees that Romney's petitions would NOT be examined. They could NOT be challenged even if 90% said "Mickey Mouse" and showed no addresses. Meanwhile nearly every other candidate will fail the newly planned anal microscopic-signature checking [even though state law for Presidential Primaries § 24.2-545 does not require street addresses]. Without this letter, they feared Romney could be booted from the ballot too.

Mister Rexrode has even been so brash as to quote to the NY Times and others that Gingrich can do nothing about this... "Gingrich may appeal the party's decision to its State Central Committee, but Dave Rexrode, executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia, said there is not enough time to hold a meeting before the State Board of Elections meets Wednesday."

This is the undated letter.
The PDF file contains a hidden Microsoft Word creation date of 12/21/2011.

5 posted on Monday, December 26, 2011 12:39:11 PM by Gideon7