Conservatives Left In The VA Cold? Gov Perry Appeals Order.
“Any serious challenge to the Mitt Romney Express stops dead in Virginia. Conservatives won’t vote for either Romney or Ron Paul.” - DRH
By Dell Hill & Richard Falknor @ Blue Ridge Forum
Meanwhile, back in Virginia, conservatives are currently left with the choice of voting for Mitt Romney or Ron Paul. That’s it! None of the other Republican candidates qualified to get on the Virginia ballot.
Nobody has a better handle on what’s happening in Virginia than our own guest blogger, Richard Falknor @ Blue Ridge Forum.
UPDATE! “Petition Drive Started for Change in Virginia Law To Allow Write-in Votes in the March 6, 2012, Republican Presidential Primary in Virginia.” The petition announcement declares – - “A coalition of tea party leaders and activists are concerned that Virginia voters are disenfranchised by being forced to vote between only two candidates, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul. With only two choices on the ballot, tea party activists fear, most people simply won’t vote on March 6, 2012. Many tea party leaders do not support either Mitt Romney or Ron Paul for President.”
One dedicated activist declares:
“Shame on the GOP in serving up Romney.
Many loyal, fellow volunteers are livid with GOP over this.
We want to influence GOP to drop pushing support of Romney, or risk 3rd party in Nov.”
Meanwhile Olympia Meola (Richmond Times-Dispatch) reports last night in her “Perry appeals decision to keep 4 off Va. primary ballot” that “Texas Gov. Rick Perry is appealing a federal judge’s refusal to add four Republican presidential candidates to Virginia’s March 6 primary ballot.
Perry, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman challenged Virginia’s residency requirement for people who circulate ballot petitions.
U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney Jr. ruled Friday that while he agreed with them on a key issue, they waited too late to sue.
Perry filed an appeal on Sunday in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that ‘the court should grant an injunction ordering movant’s name placed on Virginia’s Republican primary ballot, or in the alternative, issue an injunction ordering the Respondents not to order, print, or mail ballots prior to the court’s final consideration of this appeal.’”
See our earlier posts on the Virginia primary here, here, here and here.
Will Virginia conservatives and Tea Partiers demand legislative relief to be able to write in their primary selections (foregoing link opens to Virginia state senator Frank W. Wagner’s SB 510 allowing write-in votes in primary elections) ?
Will the GOP State Central Committee back away from their March 6 presidential primary “loyalty oath” next Saturday January 21?
Stay tuned.”
Dell’s Bottom Line:
You know who this helps/hurts, don’t you?
Any serious challenge to the Mitt Romney Express stops dead in Virginia. Conservatives won’t vote for either Romney or Ron Paul, so we’re basically shut out of the process we take such great pride in - the ballot. Virginians have one choice - stay home.
As a protest, Virginia Republicans could cast blank or spoiled ballots, but what good would that do? The courts (and obviously the Virginia Republican Party officials) don’t care. The man the big dogs want nominated is on the list and that’s all that matters to them.
Shame on Virginia. I would have thought the “First State” would always welcome all candidates and encourage her voters to go to the polls and vote for their favorite. What’s happened in Virginia is a disgrace.
“Any serious challenge to the Mitt Romney Express stops dead in Virginia. Conservatives won’t vote for either Romney or Ron Paul.” - DRH
By Dell Hill & Richard Falknor @ Blue Ridge Forum
Meanwhile, back in Virginia, conservatives are currently left with the choice of voting for Mitt Romney or Ron Paul. That’s it! None of the other Republican candidates qualified to get on the Virginia ballot.
Nobody has a better handle on what’s happening in Virginia than our own guest blogger, Richard Falknor @ Blue Ridge Forum.
Conservatives Left In The VA Cold? Gov Perry Appeals Order.
UPDATE! “Petition Drive Started for Change in Virginia Law To Allow Write-in Votes in the March 6, 2012, Republican Presidential Primary in Virginia.” The petition announcement declares – - “A coalition of tea party leaders and activists are concerned that Virginia voters are disenfranchised by being forced to vote between only two candidates, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul. With only two choices on the ballot, tea party activists fear, most people simply won’t vote on March 6, 2012. Many tea party leaders do not support either Mitt Romney or Ron Paul for President.”
* * * * *
Blue Ridge Forum is hearing from Virginia conservatives outraged that they cannot even write in their selection
(scroll down to “C.”) in the March 6 GOP presidential primary – - now
limited to two choices: governor Mitt Romney or Dr. Ron Paul.One dedicated activist declares:
“Shame on the GOP in serving up Romney.
Many loyal, fellow volunteers are livid with GOP over this.
We want to influence GOP to drop pushing support of Romney, or risk 3rd party in Nov.”
Meanwhile Olympia Meola (Richmond Times-Dispatch) reports last night in her “Perry appeals decision to keep 4 off Va. primary ballot” that “Texas Gov. Rick Perry is appealing a federal judge’s refusal to add four Republican presidential candidates to Virginia’s March 6 primary ballot.
Perry, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman challenged Virginia’s residency requirement for people who circulate ballot petitions.
U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney Jr. ruled Friday that while he agreed with them on a key issue, they waited too late to sue.
Perry filed an appeal on Sunday in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that ‘the court should grant an injunction ordering movant’s name placed on Virginia’s Republican primary ballot, or in the alternative, issue an injunction ordering the Respondents not to order, print, or mail ballots prior to the court’s final consideration of this appeal.’”
See our earlier posts on the Virginia primary here, here, here and here.
Will Virginia conservatives and Tea Partiers demand legislative relief to be able to write in their primary selections (foregoing link opens to Virginia state senator Frank W. Wagner’s SB 510 allowing write-in votes in primary elections) ?
Will the GOP State Central Committee back away from their March 6 presidential primary “loyalty oath” next Saturday January 21?
Stay tuned.”
Dell’s Bottom Line:
You know who this helps/hurts, don’t you?
Any serious challenge to the Mitt Romney Express stops dead in Virginia. Conservatives won’t vote for either Romney or Ron Paul, so we’re basically shut out of the process we take such great pride in - the ballot. Virginians have one choice - stay home.
As a protest, Virginia Republicans could cast blank or spoiled ballots, but what good would that do? The courts (and obviously the Virginia Republican Party officials) don’t care. The man the big dogs want nominated is on the list and that’s all that matters to them.
Shame on Virginia. I would have thought the “First State” would always welcome all candidates and encourage her voters to go to the polls and vote for their favorite. What’s happened in Virginia is a disgrace.
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