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Somebody in Ohio Is Lying

By Matthew Vadum on 3.26.10 @ 6:09AM

Who booted the Tea Party candidate off the GOP primary ballot?

Did an ACORN-friendly Ohio elections chief who previously defied federal election law improperly boot a Tea Party candidate off the Republican primary ballot for state attorney general?

The disqualified candidate, attorney Steve Christopher, would have been going up against former U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio), a member of the Ohio GOP establishment, in the May 4 vote. Christopher is a life member of the National Rifle Association and founder of the Hardin County Tea Party.

Christopher's campaign claims legal funny business is preventing him from participating in the Republican primary for Ohio state attorney general in May. The dispute hinges on approximately 2,000 signatures on nominating petitions that, according to Christopher, vanished into thin air after being filed with the office of Jennifer Brunner, the state's liberal Democratic secretary of state.

"At first we felt it was a mistake or an oversight and that the petitions were misfiled or lost," said campaign spokesman Mark Lucas. "We weren't sure what to think and none of the explanations we got made any sense."

"At this time we have strong suspicions that the petitions were not lost or misplaced and there may be more to it," Lucas said.

Brunner's office categorically denies any wrongdoing.

To Republicans, Brunner, who herself is seeking the Democratic nomination for retiring GOP Sen. George Voinovich's seat, isn't exactly known for fairness. The longtime ACORN ally defied federal law in 2008 by refusing to enforce provisions of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) that required her to use a database to allow verification of 600,000-plus registrations from new Ohio voters.

During that election cycle Brunner admitted there were "discrepancies" on about 200,000 of the new registrations, but she didn't care. She refused to give local election officials the registration data they needed to verify the validity of the registrations. Chaos was avoided on election night in Ohio because President Obama beat John McCain in the Buckeye State by over 262,000 votes -- well beyond what John Fund has called the "margin of ACORN."

When she ran for secretary of state, Brunner was funded by a below-the-radar non-federal "527" group called the Secretary of State Project. The entity can accept unlimited financial contributions and doesn't have to disclose them publicly until well after the election. Funded by George Soros and other leftists, the group claims more Democrats are needed as secretaries of state across the nation in order to "protect" elections from eeevil, racist, vote-suppressing Republican monsters like former Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris and Kenneth Blackwell, Brunner's African-American predecessor.

It must be emphasized that none of this proves Brunner did anything improper in the Christopher case, but her devil-may-care conduct in 2008 is enough to make conservatives and Republicans suspicious.

As for Christopher, his odyssey began Feb. 18 when his campaign claims it filed 2,750 signatures from qualified Ohio voters -- well over the required 1,000 signatures -- with Brunner's office. After paying the $150 filing fee the campaign received a receipt from chief elections counsel Brian E. Shinn a few hours before the 4 p.m. deadline.

Then on March 5 the campaign was shocked to learn Christopher was disqualified for presenting only 638 valid signatures. Brunner took the position that Christopher had filed only 788 signatures and that 150 of those were not valid.

Both parties stuck to their stories and the dispute ended up in the Supreme Court of Ohio where it boiled down to a case of "he said, she said."

It's not clear where the 1,962 signatures Brunner's office claims it never received actually went, assuming they were filed.

Brunner spokesman Jeff Ortega told me the fact Christopher has a receipt from the secretary of state's office date-stamped Feb. 18 doesn't prove the candidate actually presented 2,750 signatures, valid or otherwise.

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topics:
Voter Fraud, Steve Christopher, Jennifer Brunner

About the Author

Matthew Vadum is an award-winning investigative journalist at a conservative watchdog group in Washington, D.C. Vadum is also author of Subversion Inc: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (141) | Leave a comment

Brian Mc| 3.26.10 @ 6:57AM

Un-freakin'-believable!

William Z| 3.26.10 @ 8:19AM

Be prepared. Outsiders are not always welcomed.

Brian Mc| 3.26.10 @ 3:52PM

I'm sorry, William Z, just got back from a day of fishing and sat down to check up on the responses. Are you referring to me?

Big Buckeye FAN| 3.26.10 @ 8:41AM

Did the campaign keep copies of the signature sheets and attach the date/time stamp as proof of what they submitted. That would only be about 20-30 pages to copy. I'm all for beating RHINOS but if this guy can't file 30 pages of signatures correctly but keeping copies, how could he be AG?

Stephen| 3.26.10 @ 12:41PM

I totally agree with Buckeye Fan. Proof Proof Proof.

Louis Jenkins| 3.26.10 @ 9:36AM

What? ACORN messing with elections? Tell me it ain't so! Or is this just another hint that both parties are the same?

Roy| 3.26.10 @ 9:51AM

Uh-no..if it happened it is proof that Democrats belonging to the Democrat party committed Democrat fraud after being elected through a Democrat 527 to advance Democrat goals.

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Tim| 3.26.10 @ 10:22AM

This Is Why We,Tea Party Rebels Are Now In Open Rebellion.

1FreeMan| 3.26.10 @ 11:02AM

The real enemy of freedom is the judges (slim covered lawyers who made it to the bench) who sit on the Supreme Court in Ohio. These jerks were trusted to uphold the law and expose violations of public trust. They failed and played politics. The courts and the political activists making anti-American rulings from the bench should be the first target of legal actions. THAT is where the “revolt” should begin.

The filthy Democrats trying to line up the election ballots so they have a chance to win can't be blamed; it is what they are. Cursing out a snake because it tries to bite you is just stupid. Democrats, by nature, are liars and thieves. The real evil in this case is the lawyers (judges) who refused to grant an emergency hearing. The judicial branch is where the beginning of the fall of freedom has begun. Make no mistake people: the failure of judges to uphold the law, the Constitution and the liberty of the American people is the root of the problem. The Judiciary has become the enemy of freedom!

MT B| 3.26.10 @ 3:30PM

I agree 1FreeMan, if it had been a democrat seeking a hearing, it would have been expedited and heard in all speed. There is very little honor left in this country. People take an oath to support and defend the constitution, but it doesn't mean anything to them unless it advances their personal or party's agenda.

Charles Newman| 3.29.10 @ 2:33PM

"The filthy Democrats trying to line up the election ballots so they have a chance to win can't be blamed; it is what they are."
True, but the people who elect this filth to office can be blamed and should be ashamed!

Jill Christopher| 3.26.10 @ 11:08AM

Dear Big Buckeye Fan, Indeed, we have copies of over 240 (not 20-30, as you state) petitions filed. SOS's receipt is file stamped with date and time, and was filled out and signed by an SOS employee. The secretary of state's office offered to "work with us" if we produced the copies (see SOS letter posted on Steve's website). Alas, when we produced the copies, the SOS was no longer willing to "work with us". If you wish to see copies of the petitions Steve filed that the SOS office claims NOT to have, please visit Steve's website. The ones the SOS claims to have are not yet posted. In addition, we have in our possession almost 600 UNFILED, ORIGINAL signatures which Steve held back since petitioners collected over 3,000 signatures, and if a candidate turns in over 3,000 signatures, the SOS kicks the candidate off the ballot for that. Steve held out the 600 so that he would safely not go over the 3,000 limit, yet would still file plenty of petitions to ensure 1,000 valid signatures. There were also two witnesses who saw the large stack of petitions just prior to their being filed. Unfortunately, the witness who accompanied Steve to the SOS's office had dropped Steve off outside the SOS office but could not find a parking place and so was not in the SOS's office at the time the petitions were filed.

adair| 3.26.10 @ 4:45PM

Was it not one of our Communist brethren who said something to the effect of, "It is not the voters who determine the outcome of the election; it is the one who counts the votes." This explains Soros'527 group's big push to elect SOS's.

blackhelicopters| 3.26.10 @ 8:48PM

http://www.rightohio.com/2010/.....l-brigade/

http://www.dispatchpolitics.co.....ml?sid=101

anniemae| 3.27.10 @ 3:16PM

I hope everyone will read your (Jill Christopher) comments before they reply, thereby not making fools of themselves. Obviously the Tea Party has enemies in high place of both Parties. It is always difficult to change years, decades even, of corruption and there are always the blind followers and those with a vested enterest trying to stop the cleansing.

Scott| 3.26.10 @ 11:16AM

I suppose this means from here on out, candidates will be making video clips of themselves dropping their signatures off with the State.

blackwatch| 3.26.10 @ 1:54PM

video tape everything and have photo copies of everything. Also take some still photos of the process as well. Also take a picture of the persons accepting the petitions/ballots, etc. and get their names and job titles too. All of this is needed to prevent fraud.

The Rule of Law does not apply when progressives interpret the rules. Don't trust--Verify!

MTB| 3.26.10 @ 3:32PM

Hear! Hear!

dave| 3.28.10 @ 12:27PM

Of course that wasn't necessary in Minnesota, they just kept re-counting the votes until Franken magically had the votes. They would find ways around anything.

loiseller| 3.27.10 @ 12:41AM

I was just thinking the same thing, only I wasn't thinking candidates... It seems we ALL have to be doing the same thing when we cast our ballots.

Flood the courts with video proof from us 'common everyday voters' of the shenanigans going on.

canuckistani| 3.26.10 @ 11:21AM

Gay in the air, communism in the water, Acorn whores on every corner.....spies, I tell ya, spies!
C'mon guys, maybe your boy screwed up?
Perhaps it was the missing two minutes in Flashforward, or Obamofascists in black vans erasing our minds?
I like the cause, but paranoia is unbecoming and indicates insecurity is starting to bubble up. I give the Tea Party one election cycle and that's it. Too bad, it had some interesting rhetoric to capitalize on.

Dai Alanye| 3.26.10 @ 3:40PM

I'm an Ohioan, and here's my advice:

In a disagreement between Jennifer Brunner and anyone else not a proven felon, trust Anyone Else.

Jimbo Thorpe| 3.26.10 @ 8:50PM

http://www.progressohio.org/pa.....rding/CX9J

ds80| 3.26.10 @ 10:20PM

hey pea-brain ... piss off the populace and you'll soon have a pitchfork where the sun don't shine

Larry in Iowa| 3.26.10 @ 12:13PM

Secretary of State candidates don't get the support of George Soros unless he knows they will cheat to help leftists and hurt conservatives. It happened in Ohio before, and in Minnesota to elect that joke Franken. Brunner did it before, now she's doing it again. Being a leftist means the law does not apply to you.

MTB| 3.26.10 @ 3:33PM

In Alinsky's words: "The ends justify the means." I hate democrats!

Charles Newman| 3.29.10 @ 2:44PM

MTB,
Don't hate them, just hate their behavior. Some of them see the light from time to time.
It is not necessary to hate the enemy, but that omission should not prevent his destruction
!

MikeN| 3.26.10 @ 12:18PM

In next door Indiana, Tamyra could have been the Democrats nominee for Senate, but couldn't muster 4500 signatures. She claimed she had 3500, with 2 days to go, but somehow couldn't do it.

John| 3.26.10 @ 12:43PM

Disappointing and highly suspicious.

But Christopher's campaign was grossly negligent in failing to make copies or at least take pictures of the signature pages.

Jill Christopher| 3.26.10 @ 1:13PM

Please read my earlier comment. The copies, complete with signature pages, have been posted on Steve's website for quite awhile now.

Northern Rebel| 3.26.10 @ 1:00PM

Louis Jenkins:

The party's are not the same, although the republican party has stuggled for years, sometimes not very hard, too rid themselves of creeps like Mike DeRino.

We have occasionally succeeded. A partial list:
Chris Shays - (True worm)
Sherry Boehlert
Arlen Expectorate - (dispicable)
Tom Ridge
Huckabee

Coming to a theater near you, I hope:
John McCain - (doddering old fool)
Charles Grassley
Robert Bennett
Jerry Lewis
Ahnold - (term limited)
Charlie Crist - (please God)

Conservatives can retake control of the republican party, by flushing shit like this right down the political toilet!

MTB| 3.26.10 @ 3:35PM

You left off Lindsey Graham. I know he's not until 2012, but we shouldn't leave him off any future unemployment lists. Shame, too. I used to like him.

Missy| 3.27.10 @ 2:04AM

Lindsey's a crapper for sure.

Deb75| 3.26.10 @ 1:15PM

This isn't just about lefties, it's about Dem-lites running the Ohio Republican Party.

Retread Mike DeWine is kissin' cousins with Kevin DeWine, who just happens to be the Chairman of the Ohio Republican Party. They have systematically cleared the way for cousin Mikey to run opposed (moving the first grassroots favorite to the auditor's race to run against a strong conservative who had already announced but that Cousin Kevin didn't like thereby killing two birds with one stone).

Yep, that's the party of "fair & open primaries" allowing for the people to decide (sarc/).

Why? B/C cousin Mike won't ride off into that good night. After he got trounced in 2006 by a socialist, in a landslide, with $20 million in his war chest, he (the most anti-second amendment RINO in the Senate) wants to slither his way back in b/c hey, EVERYONE is a Tea Party conservative now (eyeroll).

Funny, the State Supreme Court had no problem bailing Taft Tax, CAT tax establishment favorite for Secretary of State Jon Husted out of his little residency issue (representing one district while living in another). Oh, but wait, HE's a Tea Party conservative now, too (eyeroll).

http://www.bizzyblog.com/2010/.....th-morgan/

http://www.bizzyblog.com/2010/.....ect-storm/

George F| 3.26.10 @ 1:38PM

If you're not a Dem, it appears you must CYA with everything you do. Christopher should have photo-copied all this signatures so he could prove he had them after giving the originals to Brunner.

Every Dem in power that I've ever come across manages his/her duties with dishonesty and lying, another reason to get all of them out of office.

GOPexile| 3.29.10 @ 12:20PM

Geroge F. wrote: "Christopher should have photo-copied all this signatures so he could prove he had them after giving the originals to Brunner. "

How would evidence you suggest have helped the Christopher campaign? Steve Christopher had photo copied ballot petitions, had a signed receipt from the SOS office, and the Ohio Supreme Court ignored evidence lawlessness at the SOS office . Corruption at Jennifer Brunner's office is pretty clear, but the Ohio Supreme Court was equally corrupt in not being willing to examine evidence from the case of election fraud. Visit the Christopher web site and view a pdf file of the receipt, of sample pdf files of lost petitions and the Writ of Mandamus filed with the state of Ohio.

http://www.stevechristopher.org/

astonerii| 3.26.10 @ 2:00PM

They do not make photo copies of the names they turn in? One would think that for a campaign, you would think they could have at the very least photocopied everything and had some official seal placed on the paper to ensure they have valid back ups.

Dai Alanye| 3.26.10 @ 3:50PM

Do you people fail to read the posts higher up? The copies are supposedly on the guy's website. Have you looked?
http://www.stevechristopher.or.....;Itemid=17

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…SOS Project $$ and went on to block an investigation of ACORN’s registration of dead voters and convicted felons. Ritchie also played a crucial role in Al Franken’s tainted Senate victory. An American Spectator article raises interesting questions about some funny business involving Brunner and a prospective Tea Party candidate for Ohio Attorney General. Posted by Dan Pero in the categories: ACORN, Ohio,…

jomo2009| 3.26.10 @ 3:07PM

I propose that after this year's mid-term elections, we run Steve Christopher for senate in 2012 against Sherrod Brown. Winning elections is the best revenge.

Tom Poole| 3.28.10 @ 12:28PM

Run Mickey Mouse against "Stimulous" Sherrod, I'll vote for him. As for Brunner, I doubt even ACORN can save her now.

MAJ Mike| 3.26.10 @ 7:05PM

Regardless of Brunner's claim, the receipt shows that petitions were filed. Now, maybe I'm wrong, but when you sign for something, you are responsible for it. I would suggest that a state official who lost those petitions is guilty of criminal negligence should be charged with it. The solution is to get the Ohio AG to initiate a criminal investigation, but I'm guessing that the state apparatchicks are cozy enough with each other to prevent that course of action as well.

Jeremiah| 3.27.10 @ 2:06AM

Excellent point! Hold the bitch Brunner's feet to the fire!

JmsA| 3.26.10 @ 7:51PM

No one should be surprised any of the actions of the win-at-all cost, the-end-justifies-the-means, anti-freedom democrats? Wake up people; they're not just trying to win elections, they're trying to destroy freedom and remake the country. It is no longer enough to cross the T's and dot the I's. All must be ever vigilant, and not only hope for the best and except the worst, BUT ANTICIPATE ONLY THE WORST AND PREEMPT IT, at any cost. These are anti-freedom, hate-filled, parasitic communists we're dealing with. WAKE UP ALREADY!!!

Quartermaster| 3.26.10 @ 8:10PM

I used to live in Ohio. I moved from the south. All the tales you hear about southern politics are true about Ohio.

The incident in the article is typical of Ohio politics. It is in a very deep two party rut, and it will almost take nuclear weapons to get it out.

I hold the Ohio Republican party in richly earned contempt. Both DeWine and "King George" Voinovich are typical of the problem with Republican politics in Ohio. They pushed RINO Taft into the Governors mansion, wrecked the state, then told Ken Blackwell, "OK, your turn now," when they knew they had so bolixed things that Blackwell had no chance.

The reality is simple, there is only one party in Ohio. The Dems, and a part that flies a false flag as Republican.

Charles Newman| 3.29.10 @ 2:53PM

Did you attend the last precinct meeting of the Republican party in your area? If not quit complaining and do something about it!

Lucas Marco| 3.26.10 @ 8:53PM

Why'd Christopher donate money to DeWine?

http://www.rightohio.com/2010/.....ke-dewine/

Tom Dilts| 3.28.10 @ 4:27PM

I have read through these comments and it seems like the ones that are quick to call Steve incompetent are very incompetent themselves. They apparently do not have the ability or knowledge to read plain text. How many times do they have to be told. THERE ARE COPIES. THEY WERE GIVEN TO BRUNNER AFTER THE LOSS CLAIM. SHE IGNORED THE COPIES. Now tell me who is incompetent? True fact it was a grassroots campaign, but who would have thought the SOS office would play so dirty? Future candidates need to learn from this tactic. Do not let this happen ever again. Next thing I bet they won't allow video cameras on site.

BJ| 3.27.10 @ 12:24AM

It's called 'cover your butt'. Never trust anyone. Verify and have proof positive~yeah it creates a lot of paper & files~but you know what they say about leaving a paper trail

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Osamas Pajamas| 3.27.10 @ 1:33AM

I'm astonished the candidate didn't keep copies of what he submitted and that he also did send one set of copies by USPS or Fedex or UPS to an attorney in order to have a date-and-time-stamped bundle of submitted signatures. These Democrats are bloody thieves.

Steve Christopher| 3.27.10 @ 9:23AM

please read the chain. for the 3rd or 4th time--the campaign kept copies, provided copies to Brunner's office and posted online copies of those that Brunner claims not to have recieved

Linda | 3.27.10 @ 1:39AM

Thanks to the Spectator for exposing this. Go the web site, check it out. Christopher's only mistake was believing in our basic right to be on the ballot, and understimating the corruption in Brunner's office....

Patriot| 3.27.10 @ 2:10AM

My God! How could anybody underestimate the disgusting corruption of democrats? Especially after the ObamaCare debacle!

These traitors will stoop to anything to win. They're playing for keeps, folks--just what will be the tipping point?

Intervenor| 3.27.10 @ 3:56AM

It sounds like Steve Christopher is incompetent. Anyone filing petitions for a referendum or office should have at least 10% more signatures than needed, in case or repeated signings, illegibility or signers not residing in the jurisdiction. The fact he has no proof of having gotten the additional signatures he claims is a giveaway that his people made a mess of his filing. Most of us copy and keep records of even receipts we mail originals of. He should have copied his petitions.

There is no factual information that the secretary of state has done anything wrong. Ironically, Ken Blackwell was found to have violated his duties during his time in that role.

Steve Christopher| 3.27.10 @ 9:31AM

please read the whole blog chian. the campaign kept copies and provided them to Brunner's office to no avail.We had a reciept for 2750 signatures from her office as well as internal documents sent by her to local bd of elections verifying that she recieved 2750. It only takes 1000 to get on the ballot. The campaign witheld 591 from filing because if you file more than 3000 then you are automatically thrown off the ballot. Finally, you are not qulified unless you turn in 1000 valid signatures and therefore they do not send them to the local board of elections to verify. Mine were sent to the BOE for verification according to Brunners record but vanished somewhere between her office and the various boe's.

Bruce| 3.27.10 @ 11:26AM

Drink much kool aid lately dumbass? Read the freaking posts! Copies were kept, and signatures in excess of required are also available!

TROLL.

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Mike| 3.27.10 @ 11:11AM

As a long-time Republican, active as a committeeman for many years, I just don't think it is likely that Christopher would drop his court case if he believed he was in the right. Uncovering chicanery by the Sect'y of State could have resulted in a major scandal, and huge benefit to Christopher the next time around. I think he realized that someone in his campaign either blundered or was acting as on behalf of the Republican incumbent and deliberately mislaid the petitions. I have seen both things happen: most political operatives are not paid professionals, but government patronage employees acting as volunteers at campaign time. Their competence and/or loyaties, are often unclear. It would have been easy for him to verify among his own people that the petitions had been duly filed. If he really did drop the case knowing he was right, then his campaign advisors and attorneys gave him bad advice.

Janice| 3.27.10 @ 4:58PM

I can understand why an inexperienced political neophyte would drop the case.
It's ridiculous to blame Christopher--he got rolled by the corrupt status quo.

dave| 3.28.10 @ 1:20PM

After you see how much money he contributed to DeWine, maybe he really didn't want to be on the ballot. Not sure why he would waste so much time and effort, but who knows what the agenda is of the politicians. It would bve nice to start from scratch, vote them all out.

GOPexile| 3.29.10 @ 12:43PM

Many voters trusted our president to be a non-partisan moderate, by the way in which he ran his campaign. Voters have discovered his actions in office are considerably different than how they campaigned.

The same is true for Mike DeWine. DeWine claimed to be a conservative and was supported by many trusting voters in Ohio. I voted for Mike DeWine and sent money to his campaign in previous elections. That mistake was made before Mike DeWine revealed is true liberal leanings. Many of us were fooled by RINO Mike. We will not be fooled again. The corrupt Ohio Supreme Court is now on our watch list. They refused to investigate this fraud because they were clearing away a true conservative, a man who believes in the rule of law. Voters will have a chance to vote on Ohio Supreme Court judges this November.

As we experience corruption on both Democrat and Republican sides of Ohio politics, voters and candidates are learning to be weary. So are Ohio voters...

mike| 3.27.10 @ 11:58AM

There are three issues clarified by Christopher in the comments which are unclear from the article: 1) he filed the petitions with his own hands; 2) he did not have a witness in the room with him; 3) he had many more than the maximum 3,000 signatures, but chose not to file, e.g.; 2,880 signatures (I assume 20 signatures to a page, not counting the attestation of the committeeman or notary who gathered them). Issues 2) and 3) are simply the kind of amateur mistakes often made by a real grassroots (i.e. underfunded) primary campaign. He still should have appealed the judge's decision.

Congress Works For Us| 3.28.10 @ 11:02PM

Appealed to whom? He lost at the Ohio Supreme Court!

Oh, and they gave no reason, they just denied it.

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mmc| 3.28.10 @ 1:04AM

I heard that the Dems plan is to position as many AG's and Sec of States that are Acorn friendly in as many states as possible. This will guarantee elections will be slanted in their favor. This info was in some papers found at an Acorn office. The FBI should investigate these allegations or we may never have fair elections again. The Tea Party candidates are a HUGE threat to the Dems and they know it......as we have seen the Democrat/progressives do not play by the rules.

ZerObama| 3.28.10 @ 2:30AM

You're right, mmc--it's a George Soros project, and it's been successful. Got that clown, Al Franken, elected.

Soros is a real asshole.

wodiej| 3.28.10 @ 6:10AM

Amazing how people pop off and drop name calling and accusations without reading through other posts. Christopher has posted several times that he made copies of all documents. Give the guy a friggin' break already.

Is Christopher Crazy| 3.28.10 @ 1:38PM

I agree with the earlier posters. Christopher sounds like an amateur. Anybody, especially a lawyer, knows to keep copies of what they file with a public office.

We need Republicans in office, but not incompetent ones.

Congress Works For Us| 3.28.10 @ 11:03PM

And clearly you are a troll.

Marc Jeric| 3.28.10 @ 2:10PM

Abu Hussein from Kenya, aka President Obama, has his system of local soviets functioning well. This system is manned by ACORN brownshirts, SEIU and teacher union thugs, and supported by the far-left secretaries of state; see examples in State of Washington governor race and Minnesota senator race, for example.

Achilles Toejam| 3.28.10 @ 6:09PM

Easy solution around the problem is that see if an extension can be granted due to this error, Christopher could send his volunteers to gather the needed signatures again, in the face of this fracas I think many more volunteers would present themselves to help.

Intervenor| 3.28.10 @ 8:09PM

The copies of petitions kept must be official, i.e., date stamped by the authenticator. Otherwise, the candidate could produce signatures past the deadline and claim they met the requirements. Obviously, this did not occur. Again, the responsibility is Christopher's. A person who cannot handle filing certainly could not handle the decision-making of the office, either.

We saw the same kind of whiny partisanship from the conservative candidate for New York's District 23. After having clearly lost the election, he accused the opposition of having sent fake voters to the polls, threatened lawsuits, and appeared on television saying inane things. Clearly, 'tea party' candidates are not being vetted at all.

Chris Pedersen | 3.28.10 @ 9:02PM

In the hostile and corrupt Democrat political enviroment of Ohio [Remember MOBBED-UP Teamster President Jackie Presser] one would think this Tea Party Guy would have had the BRAINS to make copies of these documents prior to turning in the "originals", thus having some proof and backup records that he met or exeeded the mandated quota of signatures he needed, thus having eliminated the now used "He said she said" excuse the court gaveled as their bogus "ruling." The Tea Party Patriots should start combing over State records [with the aid of Judical Watch [see their website for the "Joe The Plumber" litigation] concerning these Judges "mandated" filings of their Financial disclosures for any "ties" to the above, including "fronts" to the "Wiseguys" including relatives and THEIR so-called "Friends Of Ours" like "Goodfellows"
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Neo| 3.29.10 @ 12:56AM

I've been through the wringer on campaign signatures before and yes, it is funny business.
First, the rules seem arbitrary to the uninitiated.
One disqualifying signature on a petition voids the entire petition and since that may be 50 or more signatures, you needs a hell of lot more than "just enough.".
Meanwhile, big name candidates twist arms and the problems are ignored.

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Somebody in Ohio Is Lying links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…of the submitted 2,750, and struck down Steve Christopher from the Ohio ballot, has finally made a national newspaper. This story appeared in The American Spectator last Friday, on March 26th. Somebody in Ohio Is Lying By Matthew Vadum on 3.26.10 @ 6:09AM Did an ACORN-friendly Ohio elections chief who previously defied federal election law improperly boot a Tea Party candidate off the Republican primary ballot…

archer52| 3.29.10 @ 12:23PM

The left learned a valuable lesson in 2000. Since then they have positioned democrats in key offices at the state level. In Washington it cost the republican a governorship. In Minn. you got Franken.

Many of you think in November your voice will be heard. If it is close, they will steal the election. Even if it is not close they will try to steal it. "the ends justify the means".

In my novel REVOLT (www.revoltthebook.com) Set in 2015, I wrote about a time when people no longer had their voices heard or their rights respected. It was supposed to be a work of fiction but is quickly becoming a history text.

We are in the soup for sure now.

Pingback| 3.29.10 @ 12:43PM

Truth And Common Sense − Stealing the election. Democrats in Ohio tune up for Novembe links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

the election. Democrats in Ohio tune up for November. Truth And Common Sense Stealing the election. Democrats in Ohio tune up for November. Posted March 29th, 2010 by admin http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/26/somebody-in-ohio-is-lying The author Matthew Vaudum points to an incident in the highly suspect state of Ohio which now has its elections controlled by a hard line democrat. Make no mistake the left…

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Did Soros-Owned Ohio Elections Boss Boot Tea Party Candidate Off Ballot Improperly? | links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…George Soros, Jennifer Brunner, Mike DeWine, Secretary of State, Steve Christopher, Tea Party Movement Did outspoken left-winger Jennifer Brunner, an ACORN-friendly Ohio elections chief who previously defied federal election law, improperly boot a Tea Party candidate off the Republican primary ballot for state attorney general? The disqualified candidate, attorney Steve Christopher, would have been going up…

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Pingback| 4.28.10 @ 3:37PM

Ohio’s May 4th Primary: Decision Time for Buckeyes | United we Stand for Americans links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…that the campaign is showing little effort, which leaves Mr. Owens and Mr. Christopher. Here’s where it gets interesting. Based on accounts found in several places on the internet, namely here and here, one could surmise that some underhanded, Chicago-style politics are being played with the State Attorney General race — lending yet further proof that the office is in need of serious reform. Due…

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