ROMNEY IS FIRST ON BALLOT IN VIRGINIA!!!

GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY FILES TO
PARTICIPATE IN VIRGINIA PRIMARY

ROMNEY FIRST REPUBLICAN TO FILE FOR BALLOT ACCESS

Boston, MA –Governor Mitt Romney is the first Republican to file for ballot access in Virginia. Today, Governor Romney announced his intent to participate in the Virginia Presidential Primary Election to be held on February 12, 2008. Virginia Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling and Delegate Chris Peace submitted the necessary petitions and paperwork to the Virginia State Board of Elections office requesting that Governor Romney's name appear on the Virginia Republican primary ballot. Lieutenant Governor Bolling, who serves as Romney's Statewide Campaign Chairman in Virginia, released the following statement.

"Governor Mitt Romney is a leader Virginians can be proud to support. He is the only candidate in the race who has the experience, vision and values to lead this country forward. Mitt Romney is a proven problem solver. As President, he will take Washington apart and put it back together so that it works better for us. Governor Romney has built a very strong grassroots organization in Virginia. We are proud to be on his team."

RACE 4 2008

by Justin Hart

http://race42008.com/2007/11/29/romney-wins-virginia-primary-race/

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 700 signatures from each 11 congressional 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. Bowling, 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.