Coffman turns in petition signatures
By Jeremy Pelzer, PolitickerCO.com Reporter
CoffmanColorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman's CO-6 GOP campaign announced that it had turned in more than 3,500 petition signatures to the Colorado Secretary of State's office on Thursday.
Both Coffman and Wil Armstrong are petitioning onto the CO-6 GOP ballot; state Sens. Ted Harvey (R-Highlands Ranch) and Steve Ward (R-Littleton) made the ballot during last week's 6th Congressional District Republican assembly.
State law requires 1,000 valid signatures to get on the primary ballot.
Coffman manager Dustin Zvonek said the campaign's initial goal was to bring in 2,000 signatures.
"But we had a good organization that turned in more (signatures) than we expected," Zvonek said.
But Armstrong manager Jack Stansbery said he was surprised Coffman turned in so few signatures, adding Armstrong's campaign plans to turn in "considerably more" than 3,500 signatures sometime next week.
"For a guy who has been a politician for this long, run for statewide office more than once, (and) has been involved in Arapahoe County politics, I would just expect a better turnout for him," Stansbery said. "I think it bodes well for us."
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Both used paid circulators?
Both used paid circulators? Then why does it matter, if both used them it is a moot point, aside from the fact that Armstrong turned in almost double the numebr of signatures than Coffman. No candidate would pay for more than te required to get on the ballot; therefore, it is clear that Armstrong has the better ground game, and the ability to get support via signatures.
The bottom line is over 6,000 people signed to nominate Wil Armstrong, while almost half that amount signed to nominate the Mike.
The Armstrong campaign wins this leg of the race.
Here's your name
In 2006 I was involved in one of the CD 5 races that contracted with the Kennedy Group, the same group used by both Armstrong and Coffman. Now how do I know the Armstrong circulator worked for Kennedy? Well, they are required to wear a pin that says Kennedy and the person I ran into circulating a Armstrong petition was a paid circulator working for Kennedy.
name
if the person was a contractor for the Armstrong campaign, what was the persons name since you said you knew who it was, come clean an name a name, don't just throw something out there and hope it sticks, who was it?
Kind of trut...
Acutally I ran into a paid Armstrong circulator at Safeway two weekends ago. I'm sure they have volunteers gathering them as well, but to say they don't have a paid contractor gathering some of them is a bold face lie.
Over 243 volunteers for Wil
the armstrong campaign had over 243 volunteers gathering signatures for the Wil Armstrong for US Congress campaign in cd-6. Not paid contractors. That is the differences between Wil's campaign from Coffmans. The fruits of that effort will be
forthcoming next week.
Grassroots Juggernaut
No one pays for more than the minimum (valid) when collecting signatures. I know for a fact that Mike Coffman had paid signatures. It's public record now anyway.
But I'm sure they all weren't. And the same would go for Armstrong. If he had paid gatherers, it would only be for the minimum.
So I'll be interested to see how many more Armstrong collected. A lot more than Coffman's 3500 would demonstrate a monster ground game.
Money Talks
I'm sure Coffman had paid circulators too, but I live in Highlands Ranch and I always saw paid circulators out for Armstrong, never any for Coffman. Does anybody know if Coffman did in fact have people being paid like Armstrong did?
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