A record-breaking fourteen individuals have petitioned to be on the November 2013 ballot for Mayor of New York City as independents, or as the nominees of unqualified parties. This is in addition to the five individuals who will be nominated by the qualified parties in the September 10 primary. However, not all of the fourteen independent body petitions have as many as 3,750 signatures, so some of the independent candidates will not appear on the ballot. The New York city Board of Elections has a hearing at 1:30 p.m. on September 3 to see which petitions are defective on their face.
The fourteen independent petitions are for:
1. Randy Credico, Tax Wall Street
2. Dan Fein, Socialist Workers
3. Michael Sanchez, Libertarian
4. Carl Person, Reform
5. John Catsimatidis, Liberal (he also submitted a second petition with the ballot label Jobs, Jobs)
6. Mike Dilger, Flourish Every Person
7. Jimmy McMillan, Rent is 2 Damn High
8. Joseph Lhota, Education
9. George McDonald, Common Sense
10. William Melisky, Voice of the People
11. Joseph Melaragno, Affordable Tomorrow
12. Jack Hidari, Jobs & Education
13. Mike Greys, Freedom
14. Walter Iwuachiw, WWTC
Also, the Green Party is running a candidate. I *think* they’re still ballot qualified.
They are. Howie Hawkins got enough votes in the last New York gubernatorial election to qualify the Green Party.
“Jimmy McMillan, Rent is 2 Damn High”
Whoohoo, this clown is hopefully back so I can LOL to oblivion.
New York City should adopt Top 2. With that many candidates it is less likely that the winner will have a majority. This would also eliminate the need for the primary runoff.
Catsimatidis got a nice writeup in the Washington Times:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/28/tyrrell-a-normal-guy-runs-for-new-york-mayor/
HELL NO TO TOP TWO IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM ANYWHERE!
Any updates on this story?
http://www.ballot-access.org/three-independent-candidates-for-mayor-of-new-york-city-removed-from-ballot-for-having-fewer-raw-signatures-than-required/
Thanks so much