Ogonowski falls short on signature deadline

Eugene

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Wed May-28-08 04:59 AM
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Ogonowski falls short on signature deadline

Source: Boston Globe

Ogonowski falls short on signature deadline

By Frank Phillips
Globe Staff / May 28, 2008

When the deadline for certification passed yesterday,
Jim Ogonowski, the Republican leadership's choice to
challenge US Senator John F. Kerry, was 82 signatures
short of qualifying for the GOP primary ballot,
according to the state's central voter registry.

But Ogonowski's campaign aides contend there are
enough certified signatures at various town offices
around the state not filed yet on the computerized
registry to put him across the 10,000 threshold.

Local election clerks were legally required to finish
their certifications yesterday. The majority of those
clerks have shipped their results to the secretary of
state's office via computer, but some may still be
submitting the certifications by hand.

Each campaign has until Tuesday, June 3, to deliver
final signature papers to the secretary of state's
office.

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mreilly

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Thu May-29-08 03:44 PM
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1. Good, when his flunkies protest we'll say "Get over it!"

Ogonowski ran for the U.S. House in my district (5th) against Niki Tsongas. While press reports painted him as "not your typical Republican" I looked at his agenda and found that he is very much the typical douchelord Republican - same old, same old "I'll cut your taxes while defending America against illegal aliens, terrorists and liberals" schtick. Rich jackoff posing as "just folks" in his little pickup truck and all that, chanting the same old tired nonsense about how "I'm not a Washington insider." I especially found it amusing how he claimed if elected he "wouldn't allow the Democrats to cut and run in Iraq." Yeah, because one guy out of 435 reps in the House has so much clout.

This is the part where the blissfully small majority of Republicans in this state will now piss, moan and whine about how Massachusetts is strangled by the one-party system, they never get a fair shake, the people can't get a chance to decide (although given Republicans are 13% or less of the population here, sounds like the people have done just that).

They don't really give a shit about two-party cooperation (they've never breathed a word about the one-party stranglehold they've held in Washington for far too long) but just want to play victim as usual since their ideas have no merit.

Now that Ogonowski has been rebuffed in his attempts to buy himself a House or Senate seat, perhaps he can run for dogcatcher somewhere.

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Ian David

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Fri May-30-08 07:25 AM
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Tue Jun-03-08 05:05 PM
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3. Confirmed. He did not get the required signatures. He is out.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/06/kerry_rival_fai.html

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