Press Release From Kokesh: Turning In Sigs

[angelatc]

Adam Kokesh to Turn in Nominating Petitions at NM Secretary of State's Office Today

Santa Fe, NM - March 23rd, 2010. Adam Kokesh, Republican candidate for Congress in New Mexico's Third District, will be turning in petition signatures at the Secretary of State's office today at 1pm. He will be available for interviews and questions from the press about his candidacy.

Kokesh plans to turn in over 1,200 signatures from registered Republicans in all 16 counties in the Third District to place his name on the ballot in June.

 

[specsaregood]

Adam Kokesh to Turn in Nominating Petitions at NM Secretary of State's Office Today

Santa Fe, NM - March 23rd, 2010. Adam Kokesh, Republican candidate for Congress in New Mexico's Third District, will be turning in petition signatures at the Secretary of State's office today at 1pm. He will be available for interviews and questions from the press about his candidacy.

Kokesh plans to turn in over 1,200 signatures from registered Republicans in all 16 counties in the Third District to place his name on the ballot in June.

Awesome!

 

[dr. hfn]

is this enough?

 

[newbitech]

is this enough?

exactly what I was just thinking. I just watched what happened to Pia Varma. She needed about 1200 too and turns out she got a bunch of bad ones.

I am sure Adam has it under control tho.

 

[specsaregood]

is this enough?

Good question, the original thread you posted said 1400.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?p=2595064

Well the attacks that pasted Adam Kokesh as anti American over his war protests worked to exclude him from the GOP Ballot.
Delegates, poisoned by weeks of negative information pushed by the GOP establishment, voted to keep Adam off the ballot.

Adam has one more chance to get ballot access and that is to collect an additional 1400 signature by March 26th

 

[dito]

Michael just posted this on fb: Michael Maresco Adam Kokesh just turned in so many signatures, from all 16 counties, that the SOS office just counted the pages, and said, "You are on the ballot" GO GRASSROOTS!
46 minutes ago · Comment · Like

 

[Cowlesy]

It should be (I hope) a foregone conclusion that either Ben Lujan or the other candidate's attorney is going to get a copy of the list (I'm pretty sure they're allowed), comb through every signature and see who they can X off.

Now, I say that on the *assumption* that there are rules as to who can sign a petition. I do not know New Mexico rules.

 

[ronpaulhawaii]

- we were having trouble communicating with the SoS due to other issues

http://www.newswest9.com/Global/story.asp?S=12184331

We finally recieved an email saying we already had turned in more than enough from the first round, but that it would be good to collect more in case any opponents want to challenge.

We decided to use the opportunity for a grassroots blitz that saw staff spreading to all corners of the district organizing volunteers to practice door knocking. Considering the size of the district, this was no small task, but very effective it was.

According to the SoS we turned in almost 3x more sigs than necessary... (and had a great exercise in canvassing for the troops)

Beat the hell of us. I caught a bug and am on halfduty for a day or two, but

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Thanks to all who helped in any way and we have more to get excited about in the pipe.

Neo-cons are fast becoming the fringe.

edit- Cowlesy, only registered GOP could sign, not sure on access...

 

[angelatc]

We finally recieved an email saying we already had turned in more than enough from the first round, but that it would be good to collect more in case any opponents want to challenge...

That is absolutely awesome.

 

[Travlyr]

Kokesh is on the GOP ballot

Awesome!

 

[Uriel999]

Oorah! Marine take that hill!!!!

 

[ronpaulhawaii]

We turned in well over 1900 total, we finally got an email from SoS that said we only needed 658

 

[Paulitical Correctness]

When's the next Kokesh moneybomb?

 

[randolphfuller]

Adam's inability to obtain 20% of Republicans at at Republican convention is probably a good indication that his campaign has been looked on favorably by ordinary New Mexico Republican party members and is more or less hopeless
How many signatures he can get doesn't matter now.

 

[specsaregood]

Adam's inability to obtain 20% of Republicans at at Republican convention is probably a good indication that his campaign has been looked on favorably by ordinary New Mexico Republican party members and is more or less hopeless
How many signatures he can get doesn't matter now.

I assume you meant unfavorably. But what you should have said was unfavorably by the Republican Party establishment that would tend to go to such a convention. Nowhere near an accurate reflection of the voters. The poll that PPP ran recently showed the the campaign is not "hopeless" but rather quite tight.

 

[libertybrewcity]

i hope some polling comes out of the district for the primary and general election!

 

[AdamT]

This is great news, good job guys! What's the next step now that the ballot is a go?

 

[angelatc]

Adam's inability to obtain 20% of Republicans at at Republican convention is probably a good indication that his campaign has been looked on favorably by ordinary New Mexico Republican party members and is more or less hopeless
How many signatures he can get doesn't matter now.

That's entirely not true. Again, Gary Johnson got 21% in the same poll and went on to win both the primary and the election. Measuring a candidates popularity by using the only party hacks isn't necessarily the best gauge of public sentiment.

 

[K466]

Awesome... GO KOKESH!

 

[phazespace]

is there any offical word on whether kokesh will be on the ballot?