Morgan Bruce Reeves, an independent candidate for Governor of South Carolina, says he has collected the needed 10,000 valid signatures to be on the ballot this year. Assuming he gets on, and also assuming that independent gubernatorial candidate Joe Schwarz gets on in Michigan, after 2010, there will be only six states in which an independent gubernatorial candidate has never been on a government-printed ballot. They will be Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Montana, New Mexico, and North Carolina.
Reeves played football for the Baltimore Colts, and is CEO of a construction company. See this story. There is a campaign website, www.reevesforgovernor.com, but it doesn’t seem to be up at the moment this blog post is being written.
The article again gets it wrong. Reeves is NOT running a write-in campaign. He is gathering signatures on a petition to appear as an independent on the ballot…but he will be on the ballot, assuming he has the requite number of valid signatures. The Free Times made the same mistake in an earlier piece.
Reeves’ campaign site is up and running now BTW.
What about Jim Brewer in 2002 in Hawaii?
And if he doesn’t count, don’t you mean never been on a government-printed general election ballot?