The End Of Romanelli

Li'l Ricky must be crying in his cornflakes this morning:

The prospect of a three-way U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania appeared all but over yesterday as the state Supreme Court rebuffed Green Party Senate candidate Carl Romanelli's bid to get on the November ballot.

The ruling, in a one-sentence order, was good news for the Bob Casey campaign, which had feared that Mr. Romanelli's presence on the ballot would siphon votes from the Democrat. For the same reason, it was a blow to Sen. Rick Santorum and to the Republican donors who had funded the petition drive that sought to establish the Green hopeful's access to the November ballot.

Let me note that I agree with Romanelli and the Greens on one thing: The state ballot law is a job protection racket. The GOP and Dems needed just 2,000 signatures to get on the ballot while other parties needed 67,000. That's just not right.


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