February 19, 2020 12:42 PM UTC

Hickenlooper Submits Petitions in (Probably) Record Time

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• by: Colorado Pols

The U.S. Senate campaign for former Gov. John Hickenlooper today filed petition signatures for inclusion on the Democratic Primary ballot in June. Hickenlooper’s campaign had previously said that it would pursue both the petition signature and caucus routes for ballot access.

At the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office, there’s a stack of petitions with Hickenlooper’s name on them.

The Hickenlooper campaign says it has quickly amassed the necessary number of signatures to be on a primary ballot this summer. #cosen #copolitics pic.twitter.com/FZkhhz1ncc

— Justin Wingerter (@JustinWingerter) February 19, 2020

The Hickenlooper campaign had until March 17 to submit petition signatures for ballot access; Hick’s camp began collecting signatures on Jan. 21, which means it took less than a month to reach the goal (candidates for U.S. Senate must collect 1,500 valid signatures from each of Colorado’s seven congressional districts). It’s difficult to say for sure that Hickenlooper set the mark for the shortest time required for a statewide candidate to collect petition signatures — there are no real records for this — but we certainly can’t recall another campaign putting signatures together this quickly.