Perry, Gingrich lose lawsuit to get on Virginia primary ballot
A federal judge denied a request Friday to add four presidential candidates to Virginia’s Republican primary ballot.
U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney Jr. indicated he thought a provision requiring candidates to only use state residents to gather signatures was unconstitutional, but none of the candidates had collected the required 10,000 regardless.
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4 GOP candidates won't get on Virginia ballot, judge rules
A federal judge has ruled against four GOP presidential candidates seeking a spot on Virginia's March 6 primary ballot: Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.
Those four had sued the state's board of elections because they were left off Virginia's ballot.
Virginia requires candidates to obtain 10,000 signatures from registered voters in the state, with at least 400 signatures coming from each of the commonwealth's 11 congressional districts.
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Story building, adding more as I get it..
A federal judge today rejected Rick Perry's lawsuit challenging Virginia's ballot requirements, meaning Mitt Romney and Ron Paul will be the only major GOP candidates on the ballot.
U.S. District Judge John Gibney said in his ruling that Perry -- along with GOP candidates Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum who joined in the Texas governor's lawsuit -- waited too long to file the complaint against the state's ballot requirements.
"They knew the rules in Virginia many months ago ... In essence, they played the game, lost, and then complained that the rules were unfair," Gibney wrote.
With the primary scheduled for March 6, Gibney said that there isn't enough time for Perry, Gingrich, Huntsman and Santorum to collect the required 10,000 signatures to get on the ballot.
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UPDATE:And now a word from the Freepers (FreeRepublic nutjobs):
http://www.freerepublic.com/...
Don't ya just LOVE the fools? lol