comMITTed to Romney!

This report is from an email I received from Justin Hart of MyManMitt fame and fortune. Justin writes about the very strong organization that Mitt Romney has fielded in Virginia and the impressive results they have achieved in getting MR on the Virginia ballot.

Here’s what Justin had to say.

“The first “primary” in Virginia just took place today! And Romney won.

At 1:30 today, Mitt Romney filed 15,000 signatures to meet the
requirements for Virginia presidential primaries.

Every campaign in the race will tell you that Virginia has the most
difficult process to get on the ballot. You have to submit 10,000
signatures with at least 400 signatures from each 11 congress-
ional districts.

Each county or city entity has to have its own petition
page for signatures and you need the voter address and in some cases the last four digits of the social security number for it to be valid.

People who collect signatures have to be registered voters in Virginia. (in other words you can’t farm this out to high schoolers)

The VA ballot submissions opened up yesterday and as far as we know Romney is the first candidate to file.

Other candidates like Huckabee are actually paying 50 cents per
signature. Thompson and Edwards are just getting started.

It will be interesting to see on December 14th who the actual
candidates will be on the ballot.

As background, there are only a handful of paid staffers for Romney in Virginia, but dozens of volunteers chipped in during the elections in November to help get the signatures required. Whole Saturdays were dedicated to rounding up the needed sigs. Unlike other campaigns Romney did this with a grassroots flare and did not outsource it.

Kudos to Team Romney, Lt. Gov. Bolling, and the VA team for making this happen.

This is one more example of why Romney is the best candidate to face the formidable forces of the DEMS in the general election.

Justin

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