NJ-GOV: Green Party candidates ends bid for governor after petitions fall short
Green Party candidate Lily Benavides has dropped her bid for governor of New Jersey after Democrats successfully challenged enough nominating petition signatures to bring her below the required 2,000.
Benavides, a late replacement candidate after Steven Zielinski, Sr. withdrew earlier this month due to serious health issues, determined that she had no path to remain in the race. The attorney for the Democrats, Raj Parikh, still had hundreds of challenges to go.
Administrative Law Judge Tama Hughes rejected 446 of the 2,444 signatures on Benavides’ petition, bringing her to 1,998 – two short.
“I do it because I’m basically forced to do it,” Benavides said. “I can’t stay here for 100 hours and seeing all the signatures being invalidated, so there’s no point.”
https://newjerseyglobe.com/governor/green-party-candidates-ends-bid-for-governor-after-petitions-fall-short/
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They are do-nothing pieces of shit that depend on Republicans bankrolling them during presidential elections so they can play spoiler against Democrats. But in an off-year state election? They can't even get a couple thousand actual signatures to make the ballot.
The only bigger dumbasses than the Green Party are the useful idiots that think having more parties like them would cure all that ails our country.
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