June 11, 2014
Brant Clifton
...If all goes as one group of activists hopes, (click here) North Carolinians will have a FOURTH choice for US Senate this November. Democrat Kay Hagan, Republican Thom Tillis, and Libertarian Sean Haugh already have places on the Senate ballot. Activists led by some Charlotte-area Tea Partiers are seeking to qualify former Republican state legislator John Rhodes as a write-in candidate on the November ballot. A web site (writeinrhodes.org) has been launched, and a video interview with Rhodes, himself, has been released. The site includes downloadable forms for collecting signatures and instructions on what do with those signatures. They must be collected and submitted by no later than July 22.
State law requires at least 500 signatures from duly registered North Carolina voters to ensure that a write-in's votes are tallied on Election Day. You can write in "Donald Duck," but unless petitions have been submitted in support of Mr. Duck, those votes will simply be ignored at tally time.
Long-time followers of North Carolina politics may remember Rhodes as a member of the long-suffering Republican minority in the state House. Many saw him as the key — the catalyst — in the downfall and indictment of House speaker Jim Black. Rhodes utilized his floor privileges, and the media, to call attention to the misdeeds of Black and his Republican ally Richard Morgan....
Brant Clifton
...If all goes as one group of activists hopes, (click here) North Carolinians will have a FOURTH choice for US Senate this November. Democrat Kay Hagan, Republican Thom Tillis, and Libertarian Sean Haugh already have places on the Senate ballot. Activists led by some Charlotte-area Tea Partiers are seeking to qualify former Republican state legislator John Rhodes as a write-in candidate on the November ballot. A web site (writeinrhodes.org) has been launched, and a video interview with Rhodes, himself, has been released. The site includes downloadable forms for collecting signatures and instructions on what do with those signatures. They must be collected and submitted by no later than July 22.
State law requires at least 500 signatures from duly registered North Carolina voters to ensure that a write-in's votes are tallied on Election Day. You can write in "Donald Duck," but unless petitions have been submitted in support of Mr. Duck, those votes will simply be ignored at tally time.
Long-time followers of North Carolina politics may remember Rhodes as a member of the long-suffering Republican minority in the state House. Many saw him as the key — the catalyst — in the downfall and indictment of House speaker Jim Black. Rhodes utilized his floor privileges, and the media, to call attention to the misdeeds of Black and his Republican ally Richard Morgan....
