Yesterday was the deadline for statewide candidates for Gov., LG and AG to submit their petitions in order to have their names placed in nomination at the 2009 GOP state convention. While AG Bob McDonnell is unopposed for the Gov.-nod, LG Bill Bolling received a suprise challenge from frequent candidate Patrick Muldoon.
Word is that Muldoon turned in enough petitions from each Cong. Dist., but only managed to gather 281 signatures in the 11th CD. Although only 200 signatures are required from each of the 11 CDs, if a candidates submits less than 300 signatures in a district, then each individual signature must be verified to be a registered voter in that district. This process is going on today.
No doubt some nails are being bitten at Muldoon HQ today. Hard to believe that it is the 11th dist. that could be the problem for Muldoon.
Filed under: 2009 Elections, Republicans, Virginia Politics
The Muldoon campaign submitted over 6000 petition signatures and over 320 in the 11th district but the Bolling campaign manager objected to many of the signatues and had them declared invalid for silly reasons. Right now RPV is checking those 320 signatures and the Bolling camapign manager is still there trying to get them thrown out. By the way the tally sheets from RPV had Muldoon getting over 6000 and Bolling getting just over 5900. It is a little shocking Bolling could not get more than Muldoon when he had five separate campaigns collecting for him.Those same tally sheets had Bolling only getting just over 300 in the 1st district. It is certainly impressive that Muldoon was able to gather this many in a littlre more than three weeks. When McDonnell/Bolling created this process they considered it next to impossible for a camapign to do on there own.
I was there for the counting. The only silliness was from the Muldoon attacks on the counters. In fact, the Muldoonies demanded that certain people not count signatures for their candidate. Then they harrassed the volunteers who did.
[...] for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General at May, 2009’s convention. According to Virginia Virtucon, everyone made the cut but the Muldoon campaign may have to wait for it’s 11th CD signaturs [...]
I was there for the count as well. The Muldoon “observers” were rude, abrasive, and insulting.Additionally, I saw the cover sheet Bolling submitted with their petitions. They had about 8,000 of the five-candidate petitions and several thousand McDonnell/Bolling/Cucinelli that apparently hadn’t been formally counted.
Additionally, the instructions were to stop counting once we’d hit the thresholds in each district. Bolling was well over in each from the look of it.
I think it’s pretty pathetic that the Muldoon people couldn’t even get 300 signatures from the 11th that at least looked correct.
“They had about 8,000 of the five-candidate petitions and several thousand McDonnell/Bolling/Cucinelli that apparently hadn’t been formally counted”. Just goes to show you those Cuccinelli supporters really did a good job for Bolling. This also means that Cuccinelli made sure to get copies of their ballots to Bolling (and probably McDonnell). I wonder how many McDonnell/Bolling/Brownlee or M/B/Foster sheets showed up for Bolling and McDonnell? Might be a good indicator of candidate strength for AG.
Were there any “McDonnell/Bolling/Brownlee” or “M/B/Foster” sheets? I never saw any.
I heard from a friend who was just walking through the lobby after dropping off Advance registration $ that the Muldoon folks thanked Cuccinelli’s staff for all their help as soon as they walked in the door to turn in their petitions.