Knowing he had only a 90- day window to gather the required 14,000 signatures with a small group of volunteers, Scheurer sought help. He said a consultant who identified himself with a business card as Anthony R. Constantine, owner of AR Consulting, approached him last month and offered to collect up to 10,000 signatures at $2 per signature.
No contract was signed and no money was paid up front, as is typically done in politics. Scheurer, who ran as a Democrat against Bean in the 2004 primary, admitted to being a bit politically naive and said he didn?t conduct a background check because he was afraid of scaring off the consultant or revealing too much information about his own campaign
Even if the guy had turned in signatures, I’d virtually guarantee they would have been invalid.
Trusting some clown who shows up with a business card gets you exactly where Scheuer is. No where.
Going back to Jeff, the number of idiots who come up and say they are going to do this or that is astounding and they make just this kind of promise all the time. Jeff smiles and says thanks and then runs the actual campaign.