War of Words Breaks Out Over Petition Challenge

This has been a day of dueling press releases by the Altmire and Critz campaigns. The Altmire campaign formally responded to the allegations made by the Critz campaign earlier in the week.

Altmire’s campaign said: “After reviewing the baseless challenge to my campaign’s nominating petitions, the facts are as clear today as they were when the petitions were filed — we have met the required threshold of 1000 valid signatures to appear on the primary ballot. We knew this when my campaign filed the petitions, and we know it now after reviewing the politically motivated complaint filed by my challenger from Johnstown.

Make no mistake, this challenge is a desperate attack from a desperate campaign. Trailing by double-digits even in his own polling and at 2-1 disadvantage in campaign funding, Mark Crtiz has now lowered himself to try to win an election by invalidating the legitimate signatures of voters, including many of his own current constituents. This is a despicable act designed to disenfranchise the new 12th district voters by denying them the opportunity to simply have a choice on the ballot.”

The Critz campaign is pushing back against the Altmire statement by saying, “The problem with Washington is that too many politicians like Jason Altmire have a sense of entitlement. Everyone knows the rules to get on the ballot and those rules even apply to Members of Congress like Jason Altmire.

The evidence shows that petitions were likely forged and petitions were circulated by ineligible circulators, among other violations. Instead of issuing over the top public statements, perhaps Congressman Altmire should be explaining why his campaign failed to follow the law.”

The next step is the Pa. Department of State to make its determination and then there will likely be a court challenge to follow.

 

4 Responses

  1. I just found out the number of signatures that Congressman Mark Critz filed. The number was 3,100 thats almost double what his opponent did.

  2. If Congressman Jason Altmire got only 1641 signatures that is a poor showing with the 12th district being 67% of his old district. It shows lack of support.

  3. Jason lost his network that helped him 2006. However, you would have thought with the addition of his hometown to the district he would of had more signatures.

  4. The ineligible circulator charge seems to be the big one. Can Politics PA get a photocopy of the alleged circulator petition?

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