Gingrich blames fraud in Virginia signature collecting

Newt Gingrich.

A worker collecting signatures to get Republican GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on the Virginia primary ballot turned in fraudulent signatures, Gingrich told a woman at a campaign stop in Iowa on Wednesday.

Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond confirmed the story, which was initially reported on CNN, and said: "We are evaluating our options."

Of the 11,100 signatures the campaign turned in, 1,500 of them turned in by the worker were false, Gingrich said. He said that the campaign needed 10,000 to be placed on the ballot.

Virginia Republican Party officials said that Gingrich, who lives in Virginia, failed to meet the requirement to get on the ballot for the March 6 primary.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry also failed to qualify for the ballot. He announced on Tuesday that his campaign is suing the state party over access to the ballot.

[starving1968-3]

by FoolKiller December 29, 2011 9:07 AM EST
Exactly. Fraud was when Obama did it (and got away with it).







What did Obama "get away with"?

[dman6015]

What options? Virginia GOP said you don't qualify and they don't allow write-in voting for the primary. It's over, Johnny!

[starving1968-3]

It's not "fraud" Newt - it's "incompetence".

[FoolKiller]

Exactly. Fraud was when Obama did it (and got away with it).

[nancy_naive]

Newt's a dirtbag. Always was, always will be.

He personifies the "last refuge of the scoundrel".
He actually blamed his partriotic fervor for his marital infidelity.

[LawyersGuns-n-Money001]

by logicnothuff December 28, 2011 7:52 PM EST

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Nope, pure huff. With a dose of BS added in.

[johneverymann20]

I`ll collect signatures for you Newt :) I`ll make sure all of them are legitimate (Sarcasm)Muhahahaha

[psy-ko]

Speaking from Virginia - Mr. Gingrich, take a hint! Seriously from what I understand most candidates try to turn in at least double the amount of sigs required just in case of something like this. If they had collected 20,000 then they would be fine, even 15,000. But no they get 500 over? Newt may not be the sharpest tool in the shed but even he should have figured that out!

[Jhihmoac]

Is he pulling this stuff out of a hat, or what?

[justsane-2009]

so neither of these yahoos could come up with 10,000 signatures in a state with a population of almost 8 million people, over 5 million of them registered voters? i don't think that there's anything else to say about that.

[myopinionpal]

Look like we have the republican equivalent of ACORN.