My most awesome council race – petitions pulled! Which is the lucky ward?
Mon, Jun 1, 2009
Today I pulled petitions for the Ward 14 & Ward 3 council races in Cleveland. The suspense! The excitement!
Couple thoughts. The ballot access for these races might be the most onerous I’ve ever encountered this side of post-Soviet Armenia, and might be challengeable in court. For starters, the new ward boundaries were just announced in April, the deadline for submitting petitions is June 25. There has been no accommodation for this timing. Council candidates still need 200 registered voters in the new ward to sign their petition, for a council seat with less than 25,000 residents. For comparison, ballot access for a US congressional seat, averaging 500,000 residents, requires 50 signatures. Equal protection, anyone?
All this, for an election in which you will be lucky to see 2,000 votes cast. Further, the BOE still does not have lists of registered voters searchable on the new ward boundaries, which is the only way to really know who is a current registered voter in the new ward boundaries. These are transient communities, with relatively few registered voters, in new borders. How is ballot access fair in this election?
Anyway, I’ve got 3 weeks to decide where to run, and get the sigs. Hmmm….is this worth it? We’ll find out!
Tags: cleveland city council, my candidacy, ward 14, ward 3
June 1st, 2009 at 4:04 pm
is it worth it? well, if it were me, i’d definitely consider that the ordeal would cut into time for my favorite activity — sleep.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Dear Heavely God the Father, I pray unto Thee that Governor Sarah Palin will be inaugurated the 45th President of the United States of America on January 20, 2013, and reinaugrated President on January 20, 2017. I pray also unto Thee that Governor Sarah Palin will beat Barack Obama in 2012. Above all I pray that Sarah Palin will be the greatest President that the United States of America will have ever had from January 20, 2013 to January 20. 2021. These 3 prayer request I pray unto Thee Thou Heavenly God the Father that Thou wilt answer them both. And I pray this unto Thee in the name of God the Son , the Lord Jesus Christ , Amen
June 1st, 2009 at 8:36 pm
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