Today at noon local Pennsylvania cable channel PCN featured a debate between GOP Senator Rick Santorum and Green Party candidate Carl Romanelli.But guess what -- Pennsylvania voters can't vote for Romanelli, even if they want to.
This morning he was tossed from the ballot by a judge who found that the Greens fell almost 9,000 signatures short of the 67,000 they need to keep a spot on the ballot.
As TPMmuckraker's Paul Kiel reports, "that strikes a deadly blow to Pennsylvania Republicans' gambit to draw votes away from Democrat Bob Casey by fielding a Green candidate." [LSB: ROFLMAO! Hundreds of thousands of dollars sent in my Repub funders to support Romanelli in order to draw votes away from Casey were wasted! Even Romanelli only suported his campaign with a $30 gift!]
So why did they debate at all? A rep for the channel says the judge's decision came down when Romanelli “was already in the studio,” so the decision was made to go ahead with the forum.
- Will Menaker
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