Thursday, January 08, 2009

Hardin Removed From Ballot

Ha!

The Milwaukee Election Commission today knocked controversial School Board member Charlene Hardin off the ballot for the spring elections.

Hardin didn’t submit enough valid signatures on her nominating petitions to win a spot on the Feb. 17 primary ballot, said Neil Albrecht, the commission’s deputy director.

Barring a successful challenge or a write-in campaign, that ruling could end Hardin’s re-election quest.

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Hardin needed 400 valid signatures to reach the ballot, Election Commission Executive Director Sue Edman told her in a letter released today. The veteran board member had submitted about 550 signatures on 56 pages of petitions, although she had crossed out some signatures, Albrecht said.

But after commission staffers reviewed the petitions, they found only 361 valid signatures, Albrecht said. Of the invalid signatures, 30 have technical errors that can be corrected through affidavits, he said.

In other cases, however, “many of her signers were outside her School Board district, and there’s nothing a candidate can do to correct that,” Albrecht said.

Hopefully, MPS will be the better for it.

(3) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1757 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. That’s just to sweet.  I guess she done herself in, what poetic justice.

    Posted by yoSAMite on January 08, 2009 at 1929 hrs


  2. In other cases, however, “many of her signers were outside her School Board district, and there’s nothing a candidate can do to correct that,” Albrecht said.

    I wonder how many were from Philadelphia?

    And you just KNOW this will be appealed….so lets see if we can come up with a list of Stupid excuses we will hear from her in the next couple days.

    I’ll Start:

    1. I’m an MPS grad, I didn’t know any better.

    2. Those “crossouts”? Thats not even my Handwriting.

    3. 400 signatures? I can’t count that high….

    4 This is all a personal vandetta….The white folk, are trying to keep me down.

    5. This is all Michael Mathias fault….

    6. Even the District Attorney said I wasn’t that smart….

    Feel free to add your own….

    Posted by Michael J. Cheaney on January 08, 2009 at 1955 hrs


  3. Here’s another one for the list, Michael:

    “Oops, my bad, that was supposed to be a reconstructed documentation for my mileage expense report.  And what’s this reelection talk?  I don’t know nothing about no damn relection - I thought after 10 years, the job was mine to keep.”

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 09, 2009 at 0817 hrs


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