On September 11, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to hear Romanelli v Caroselli, 132 MM 2006. The issue is whether anyone eligible to register to vote may sign a petition for a minor party or independent candidate, or whether only registered voters may sign. If one reads the Pennsylvania Constitution and the Pennsylvania election code, both seem to say clearly that anyone eligible to register may sign. Ralph Nader raised the same issue in 2004, but the State Supreme Court refused to rule on it since he hadn’t raised that point in the lower court. In the new case, Romanelli did raise it in the lower court, which rejected the claim.
Let Romanelli run. Give the people of Pennsylvania a choice. Santorum and Casey are one and the same. Casey people are afraid Romanelli will steal Democratic votes from Casey. If Casey were a true Democrat he wouldn’t have to worry about that. Santorum supposedly is supporting Romanelli to help split the Democratic vote. Santorum should remember “that he who rides the tigers back often winds up inside”.