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February 24, 2011 03:37 AM UTC
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The city is doing a good job updating their site too. Link is here, there’s a key at the top of the page indicating petition status.
http://www.denvergov.com/ForCa…
It must be enbarrassing to be an incumbent and have your petitions found to be insufficient on the first shot.
I’m sure she’ll resolve it. She and her husband are great people and after the last election are clearly more than competent when it comes to electoral politics.
If you can’t get at least twice that many, which should ensure that you make the ballot, then you really shouldn’t be running for office.
Fell short b/c of a technical error with a handful of sigs but it will be resolved very quickly.
I do agree the threshold is incredibly low, it’s the same for Congress and is actually a nice piece of Democracy here in America.
Not worth noting or playing the blame game. As I said we’ll get the few extra sigs we need and he will be on the ballot.
As someone not particularly familiar with this sort of thing what sort of “technical errors” would cause these sorts of issues? Other than just getting invalid signatures, duplicate signatures, or not having enough?
Also – what do you mean by blame game? Blame who?
for example:
1. the circulator has to get their section notarized and if the notary dates it 1 Mar and the circulator write 29 Feb, that throws out the whole section attached to that notary page.
2. Voter does not live in Denver
3. Circulator is not a registered voter.
4. voter puts down their mailing address instead of their residential address.
and there are just the common ones!
It is always easily to either blame the circulator or argue that the election division is incorrect, but when it is such a small number and there is still time to get more, thta is easier than arguing about ones already submitted.
I would guess the campaign has more important things to focuas on than whay went wrong. Ballots are dropping in about 4 weeks.
Well, he certainly seemed to have plenty of time to spout off on here about other stuff before questions he didn’t want to answer started getting asked?
I’m not going to go into the specifics b/c it’s moot – it was a mistake on our end and we are mending it and will be on the ballot.
That’s fine. But a “mistake on your end” was not how you originally cast it, which is why I was curious You tried to play it off like it was a computer error, instead of admitting it was a mistake you made. But what were the technical mistakes you made? I’m curious. What does (did) a campaign do wrong (in your case) to get rejected?
The upside to posting on blogs and such is that you get to drive a bit more attention to your otherwise-marginalized candidates. You also get to drive more attention to yourself, and maybe gin up some new future clients? The flip-side is that to be a part of the conversation, you have to answer the questions you are asked. Soooo… what were the mistakes you made?
Because it doesn’t accomplish anything and I’m not looking to blame. To be clear, I’m not the campaign manager and I’m not on the ground every day. Further, I promise you, I will not get any clients out of these postings. I do it b/c it’s fun to participate in the dialogue and I use my real name b/c I decided some time ago that if I was going to post on the Pols sites I wanted to be able to stand behind everything I say – using my real name makes me consider each post carefully.
/ Is he? The city site says he is? I thought you said
So, it’s been a week now. Other people have gotten their act together and gotten their petitions validated. Why not you? Hell, Haney got his done in a day.
Honestly, you seem…completely incompetent. Why would anyone hire you to run a campaign?
What successful experience or qualifications do you bring to the table besides your mom’s name (and who knows what that is even worth…)?
Giving Josh the benefit of the doubt, the city’s website does nto record when more signatures have been turned in cure an insufficiency, so there is always the possibility that he has submitted more and they have not been verified yet.
Collected signatures all the way through today, didn’t officially submit any until this afternoon. Just spoke with the Election Division, they are collecting petitions right up to the deadline (he said there were four candidates in the lobby when I called) and that he didn’t expect to have everything sorted out until COB tomorrow because the lot selection (ballot order) will be tomorrow at six.
Consequence, I’d be happy to share my resume with you if you’d like.
Why don’t you post it for everyone? I don’t care about your resume. Where you went to school or whatever doesn’t matter. But what are your electoral accomplishments? What big wins have you managed or played a key part in? Any?
You guys are welcome to email me and I can send you more specifics. You can also look up “Ben Gelt” on Tracer to see some of the campaigns I’ve worked on:
http://tracer.sos.colorado.gov…
You can do the same through the city search:
http://denvergov.org/CampaignF…
You can also look on my blog. . . you can also ignore me!
It looks like you designed websites for a few state leg races. Have you been involved in any major wins? Ya know… a senate race… governor’s race… congressional race?
It’s just my understanding that typically people prove their chops first. To me – especially watching this thing unfold with Josh Davies – I just don’t understand what these candidates are paying you for?
My clients went three for four in this cycle.