Gator Bradley delivered a ton of signatures (no word on how many are valid as of yet) for Cohen, but Niecestro paid an idiot $10,000 and got nada. Kelly didn’t even bother to forge some signatures.
Stufflebeam reports 34,000 signatures:
At least one candidate a lot of conservatives will now be watching is Randy Stufflebeam of Belleville who filed for U.S. Senate as part of the Constitution Party slate. Stufflebeam earned a lot of respect when he ran as a write-in candidate for Governor in 2006. He gave voters who couldn’t stomach either Judy Baar Topinka or Rod Blagojevich a place to go.
Stufflebeam says he filed 34,000 signatures – that’s 9,000 over the minimum. Anyone who has ever done the tedious work of gathering petition signatures knows that’s impressive – but at the same time it’s not a guaranteed safe cushion. We’ll have to see what happens. But if he can remain on the ballot, Republicans who can’t bring themselves to vote for Mark Kirk may have a solid alternative in Stufflebeam.
That probably is not enough, but we will see. Kirk is a lot more vulnerable on his right than Alexi is to Carl Officer.