June 01, 2006 08:00 AM UTC

Holy Shit! Holtzman Not on Ballot

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• by: Colorado Pols

From the Rocky Mountain News:

Republican candidate for governor Marc Holtzman learned Thursday night that he did not gather enough valid signatures to be assured a spot on the August primary ballot.

The Secretary of State is expected to formally announce the results tonight.

Holtzman, a businessman and the former State Secretary of Technology, promised to continue fighting.

“We will challenge this all the way up to the Supreme Court of Colorado,” Holtzman said. “We believe we’ve dotted every ‘i’ and crossed every ‘t.’ We produced more than double the number of signatures statewide.”

We spoke with Holtzman’s PR flak earlier this afternoon and asked if they were having any trouble, and the response was that they had verified their signatures in-house. “We’re not at all worried about it,” said spokesman Jesse Mallory at the time. Perhaps they do feel as though they have a legitimate challenge to the results here, which would open up another interesting subplot: Secretary of State Gigi Dennis, after all, is widely believed to be Bob Beauprez’s likely running mate.?