Yet another deadly blow to the conservative backed bid to put Green Party candidate Carl Romanelli on the ballot in Pennsylvania. From The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
The prospect of a three-way U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania appeared all but over yesterday as the state Supreme Court rebuffed Green Party Senate candidate Carl Romanelli’s bid to get on the November ballot.
The ruling, in a one-sentence order, was good news for the Bob Casey campaign, which had feared that Mr. Romanelli’s presence on the ballot would siphon votes from the Democrat. For the same reason, it was a blow to Sen. Rick Santorum and to the Republican donors who had funded the petition drive that sought to establish the Green hopeful’s access to the November ballot….
Virginia Davis, Mr. Santorum’s press secretary, had no comment on Mr. Leaven’s criticism, but she expressed disappointment at the court’s action.
“It is a shame how difficult it is for someone who’s demonstrated a sincere interest in being part of the democratic process to actually be on the ballot,” she said. “Bob Casey and his cohorts should be ashamed at the efforts they went to knock someone off the ballot who’s actually willing to say what he believes.”
