Rick Perry Sues Virginia GOP For Access To Ballot
by Christina Wilkie
12/27/11
WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry filed suit Tuesday in a Virginia court challenging the constitutional validity of the state law which currently bars him from Virginia's Republican primary ballot. The decision to challenge state law poses a unique political challenge for Perry, who has positioned himself throughout the Republican primary as the field's most stalwart defender of states' rights.
On Friday, the Republican Party of Virginia issued a ruling that Perry had failed to amass the required 10,000 signatures needed to appear on the ballot in the state's March 6 primary contest. Of the six candidates currently in the GOP primary race, only former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) have qualified for the state ballot.
According to a statement Tuesday from the Perry campaign, Virginia's statute "limits the rights of voters to vote for the candidate of their choice," and the state's laws are "among the most onerous in the nation and severely restrict who may obtain petition signatures." The Perry campaign posted a copy of its filing, which was made with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia...
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Besides, I thought it was the Liberals who were always running to the courts when they didn't get their way...
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