Who, you say?
Tamyra D’Ippolito, who was attempting to mount a primary challenge to Evan Bayh. According to the Indiana Daily Student, she only needs 1,000 or so signatures. On a Bloomington political discussion forum, she says that she needs signatures in particular from the 8th District.
The form to get her signatures is available here.
You do not need to be in contact with the campaign to get signatures. Just print the above form, get signatures of registered voters on it, and get it turned in to your county clerk’s office by noon tomorrow (February 16).
There is not a lot of time. Bayh declined reelection at the last possible minute so that no Democrat would be on the ballot for Senate in Indiana, and thus Democratic Party insiders (largely Bayh cronies) would pick who is on the ballot in November.
If Tamyra D’Ippolito is on the ballot, then that’s all she wrote. They can’t pick anyone else. She will be their nominee, period.
Wow is this sneaky, underhanded and cynical.
Where do I sign?
Print out a form, write your county on the line up top, sign it, get your friends to sign it, and drop it off at your county clerk’s office before noon tomorrow.
You have until Friday for the signatures. Tomorrow a statement of candidacy needs to be filed, the signatures by Friday. Too bad this gives other Dem candidates more time, but it also gives us more time to get this woman on the ballot.
That is not what the form says. It says that the signatures are due on 2/16/10 at noon. Tamyra’s site says they are needing signatures in the 8th congressional district (Terre Haute and Evansville).
Joel is correct. The deadlines are the 16th at noon for the forms and the 19th for the candidate filing.
The signatures are submitted earlier because the county clerks have 3 days to certify the signatures to the state.
Thank you Joel for saving from a near heart attack. You’re like a defibrilator.
This is huge. Can anyone organize for her? She needs signatures in Terre Haute. RedState and Moe Lane are trying to rally signatures for her, and she is gaining Facebook friends. But I’m not seeing much about this anywhere else.
Seriously, I can’t believe this isn’t getting more traction. This would save the GOP millions of dollars in a brutal Senate race. Let’s get out there and help this woman!
The IN GOP should have back up too
There is no reason we can’t get IN GOP to get 500 sigs in each district by fellow republicans for some joke of a Dem
Does anyone know where she really needs signatures? She has said the 8th, but she is also saying she needs 1,000 sigs. That means she needs them in more places than the 8th.
I’ve emailed down to a friend in the 8th. I don’t know if he will be able to scrounge anything up (he isn’t quite as activist as I would like). Shoot, I would think 4 kids in a car could scrounge up 500 signatures in the 8th in a morning.
I’ve also heard District 9 needs signatures.
I’m just piecing things together from lots of sources. Last week she said she needed “about” 1000 more sigs, but she could have been fudging. There’s no reason to get complacent about any area, particularly since the IN Dem party will be challenging her sigs. We need to ramp up the intensity on this.
Where she needs signatures doesn’t matter. We have to assume that she needs signatures everywhere.
She can’t have too few signatures, because Bayh’s minions will try to disqualify enough signatures to get her off of the ballot to enable his scheme to go forward.
Okay … I got three signatures before noon Tuesday (the deadline) on the petition form I had printed out, took them to the Howard County courthouse, gave them to the Voter Registration Board for processing, and was about to leave when they said “Since there are only three signatures, we can process them right now, and you can take them with you.”
Huh?
So I waited. From what they said, apparently these were the only signatures from Tamyra they had processed. Twenty minutes later, they were done. They filled out the back side of the petition (indicating that the petition had been signed by three registered voters in the 5th Congressional District), embossed their seal on it, had me fill out a receipt, and gave me the petition and a copy of the receipt.
Reading the receipt, I discovered that once the signatures have been processed, they are returned to the person who brought them in (or to someone else in the campaign, or sent by mail to the Secretary of State’s office, if the person bringing them in makes those arrangements). Eventually, Tamyra’s campaign would have to turn in the petition to the Secretary of State, along with all of the other properly processed petitions, and her form requesting to be placed on the ballot for the Democratic primary. They have to do that by noon on Friday.
So I went to Tamyra’s campaign website (http://tamyraforsenate.com/), and sent an E-mail. Then, seeing a number for the campaign, I called, and explained all this to someone, who told me to hang onto the petition for now, and she would figure out how to get it in the next couple of days. So I still have it.
This does not sound good, since “a couple of days” leaves only a day before the deadline. Even worse is the report at that according to a member of the Marion County Voter Registration Board, “in Marion County she turned in only one petition with three signatures. That’s 497 too few for the 7th Congressional District, which is entirely in Marion County.”
If that’s true, my petition (and any others which are outstanding) is irrelevant. But on the off chance that the statement is false (perhaps a Democratic Party minion trying to derail d”Ippolito’s campaign), I am hanging on to my petition, waiting to hear from the d’Ippolito campaign.
If the IndyStar report is inaccurate, and she actually turned in enough signatures, and if someone sanctioned by Tamyra’s campaign is willing to organize the process of collecting the petitions from all 92 counties, I’ll be glad to cooperate.
That IndyStar article is at http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010100216022
Incredible.
She would have been great to get in, but apparently we would have to have done the entire job for her. She is still trying to gather signatures even though it is obvious that the gig is up.
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