Remember Mike Lewis, the guy who embarrassed Julian Carroll on CNN? The State Journal wrote about it, too.
The Kentucky Democratic Party is challenging his petition signatures in court. He has 164 signatures, but 34 live outside his district, 30 aren’t registered to vote and several don’t have valid addresses.
Lewis is attempting to challenge Jim Wayne for the 35th District State House seat – something he has no shot at winning.
It’s interesting to see candidates take any risk whatsoever with petition signatures. People should triple check signatures before running for office. Otherwise, they’re always going to run into problems.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Thunder Storm // Sep 30, 2010 at 4:21 pm
You know what… If other Democrats or Republicans cared about Kentucky the way Julian Carroll does…. Kentucky could have nice things.
I’ll debate that until the cows come home.
2 a concerned voter // Sep 30, 2010 at 11:48 pm
@ Thunderstorm: HA! Yeah, until you disagree with him and he tells you to “move to another country.”
@ Writer of Blog: It’s interesting to see how people react to frivolous law suits. People judge one’s character even before the facts are heard. How about talking about the other non-party candidates that have been sued this year as well? It seems as though the party players are concerned if they have someone to run against.
3 jake // Oct 1, 2010 at 7:33 am
Uh, I have talked about some of them. And, based on looking at the court, most candidates facing an action like this are Democratic or Republican.
This has nothing to do with character and everything to do with following the law. The situation is even worse that I mentioned in the story – I counted SEVEN names/signatures on his documents that are illegible.
4 Michael P.W. Lewis // Oct 1, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Jake, how do you determine a signature as illegible, it’s not asking for a printed name. You comment about Democrats and Republicans facing this action is false, 1 Republican is facing this and 3 third party candidates are being targeted in this witch hunt!
I will be more than happy to talk with you any time since this is our first interaction.
5 jake // Oct 1, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Witch hunt? Yeah, they’re all out to get you. HAHAHA.
Here’s the deal: Prove to me that every single signature on that list lives in your district and is registered to vote. I’m waiting.
Yes, illegible. Meaning I couldn’t read it or with certainty say it what name they were signing for.
You may want to, say, look at the past decade. Then tell me how many independents are facing challenges.
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