Huck-a-”buyin” Signatures in Virginia…while Romney’s done filed.
This comes from the —–> always esteemed Mitt Report…
Mike Huckabee has always been the most vocal about Romney ‘buying’ his support. At Ames, he accused Romney of buying his support, at CPAC, the same thing. Now apparently Huckabee has taken up the practice of buying support himself and he is now trying to hide it.
On Monday the website Too Conservitive had a post by a Vincent Harris, who is officially “coordinating Governor Huckabee’s petition drive in NOVA,” promising to pay those who would work for Huckabee to obtain signatures 50 cents per signature. Just hours later however as the word spread, the language promising to pay money for the signatures was deleted. Luckily, Mitt Report saved a copy of the orginial text. The language earlier in the day looked like this:
“I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend.
I am in the state for a couple weeks coordinating Governor Huckabee’s petition drive in NOVA. If anyone wants to help (50 cents a signature!) please shoot me an e-mail to vincent.harris@explorehuckabee.com”The language now looks like this:
“I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend.
I am in the state for a couple weeks coordinating Governor Huckabee’s petition drive in NOVA. If anyone wants to help please shoot me an e-mail to vincent dot harris @explorehuckabee.com”
It appears that Huckabee is buying his signatures and now is trying to cover it up.
Click —–>on over here, as Paul Harvey says for “The Rest of the Story”.
Now onto our guy…
Romney’s already completed the filing process in Virginia per —–>This Romney for President Press Release
Also: —–>See this post on the same subject from our awesome blogger from Missouri John Cronin
November 30th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
I hope he is spending his money here to buy signatures that will be meaningless after Mitt wins in Iowa. If he is spending it here to buy signatures, he can’t be spending it elsewhere!
I really like the process here even though it is difficult, it means that the candidate must have some organization in the state. Even though our primary isn’t until Feb 12th, they have to pay attention to us. It also is a great way to get Mitt’s name out there to those who may not be paying attention yet.
December 15th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Just a head’s up….Buying support would be paying people to SIGN the petition. What Harris is doing is simply offering a stipend to those out beating the pavement. In case you didn’t know, northern Virginia is pretty sparse on registered Republicans, because northern Virginia (like central Maryland, where I live) is dominated by government employees. I’d agree with you that there’s a problem if Harris was paying people to sign the petition - that would actually be all kinds of illegal. But I don’t see a problem with anyone earning a few dollars toward a cup of coffee if they’re going to be out trying to track down NOVA’s few registered Republicans.
(P.S. Your blog is VERY well-designed, I’m impressed!)