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[PA] Green Party candidates for governor, lieutenant gov., to withdraw
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Aug 12, 2006 04:42am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Easton Express-Times |
| News Date | Friday, August 11, 2006 10:40:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | AP Newswire article.
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"Green Party gubernatorial candidate Marakay Rogers and her running mate are withdrawing their nominating papers for the Nov. 7 election because they cannot afford to defend themselves against a legal challenge by Democrats, Rogers said Friday.
Rogers, a York attorney, said she and lieutenant governor candidate Christina Valente are asking to have their names removed from nominating papers they submitted jointly with U.S. Senate Green candidate Carl Romanelli. Their lawyer, Sam Stretton, said he filed their request by mail Friday with Commonwealth Court.
The Democrats on Tuesday asked a court to remove all three candidates from the fall ballot, alleging that more than 69,000 of the signatures they collected included fake names, names of unregistered voters and illegible signatures. A court review of the signatures is expected to begin Monday.
Rogers, however, said she is not ending her candidacy. She hopes that a federal appeals court will rule favorably in a lawsuit filed by minor parties seeking to overturn the state's signature requirement for their candidates.
"As candidates, we have not conceded anything," Rogers said.
Minor-party and independent candidates for statewide office had to collect an extraordinarily high number of signatures — 67,070 — to qualify this year for the November ballot." |
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