First Things Last
Republican Jim Ogonowski last year came within a few thousand votes of winning a special election to fill Marty Meehan's Congressional seat. So he decided to use that moral victory as a springboard to challenging incumbent senator John Kerry.
There is only one problem: Ogonowski will not be on the primary ballot because he came up 30 signatures short of the required 10,000 signatures.
Unable to orchestrate the most basic of political tasks, Ogonowski faces the daunting task of running a write-in campaign in the primary against a Republican who is already on the ballot. It makes you wonder who the chumps were who paid $1,000 a head last month to hear Mitt Romney speak on Ogonowski's behalf. And it makes you wonder if Romney feels that he should have stuck to buting a house in suburban San Diego rather than raise money for yet another dead-ender.
Labels: ballot access, Jim Ogonowski, Mitt Romney
