The Green Party is working again on its statewide presidential petition. The party got a boost from the national convention last weekend, and another boost when Cynthia McKinney visited Pennsylvania on Sunday, July 20. The requirement is 24,666. The party had stopped collecting earlier this month, but has started, and now has approximately 10,000.
Chances are that if the party submits barely more than the legal requirement, its petition will not be challenged. No statewide minor party or independent petition had been challenged in Pennsylvania in all the years after 1938, until 2004, when Nader was challenged. Then, in 2006, the Green Party was challenged. However, the legal mess engendered by those two challenges is still in the news and the courts. It seems likely that the old tradition that Pennsylvania statewide minor party and independent candidate petitions are not challenenged will reassert itself this year. Furthermore, it would make little sense for Democrats to challenge Cynthia McKinney, if Nader has a challenge-proof petition in Pennsylvania anyway.
Find your closest Green Party of Pennsylvania contact at http://www.gpofpa.org and volunteer to collect signatures now! If you live in Pennsylvania and can’t hit the street before August 1st, download and sign the petition yourself at http://www.gpofpa.org. We can do this!
Good luck.
Good Luck..
with 8 days to the deadline…
Only possible with the best paid ballot access professionals available.
Yeah, Nader’s been hitting PA hard for a couple months now.
If the Greens want to get on, they’ll need to drop some real cash on a professional firm.
a quote from link at 10:29am
“Cynthia has only two more weeks to raise $4,000 from Pennsylvanians to help her qualify for federal matching funds. Come show your support!”
I suspect the fact that donations are more likely from a pseudo revived statewide petition effort than a defunct one is also a factor.