Westchester County Executive and NYS Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino.
Joseph Dillon, Republican candidate challenging to represent the 37th Senate District.
YONKERS, NY — October 14, 2014 — Kenneth Lovett, reporting in the New York Daily News on Monday, October 13, 2014, in his breaking news report, divulged that Manhattanite Jenise Jett, claiming to having appeared as a witness for Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino and Senate candidate Joe Dillon, but had in reality he claims not to have witnessed the signing process as demanded by law. A witness is required by law to witness petitioners ascribing their name to the petitioning process. Ms. Jetts asserts she, among others, were handed “already-filled-out petitions” as opposed to witnessing people adding their signatures to such petitions.
Astorino needed 15,000 voter signatures statewide to get on the Stop Common Core ballot line. Dillon needed 3,000 from within the district he hoped to represent. Dillon was denied affixing his name under a “Stop Common Core” party line by th. was tossed from the line after the Westchester county Board of Elections who asserted the petitions lacked a sufficient number of valid signatures.
Jett told The News she never went to Westchester, where the Dillon petitions had to be signed by potential voters.
Dillon spokesman T.J. McCormack is quoted to have said, “That is absolutely news to us.” Dillon, on The Morning Show with Bob Marrone on WFAS 1230 AM on Tuesday, October 14, 2014, said the issue is “much ado about nothing!” Dillon further noted that he had little oversight in directing the process, suggesting the responsibility rested with the Astorino campaign effort. Astorino spokesman Bill O’Reilly is quoted to have said that Jett’s claims were “absolutely utter nonsense.”
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I’ve heard that this was another dumb scheme by Westchester Republican Chairman & County Elections Commissioner Doug Colety, with the help of left-leaning, pro-homosexual rights consultant Bill O’Reilly. For more of Doug’s accomplishments, see http://yonkers.dailyvoice.com/politics/report-county-republican-chiefs-business-makes-millions-gop-campaigns and Comments.
What’s nonsense is the process. Anyone who wants to run should be allowed to in an open and free society. This is obviously not an open or free society, nor is it democratic. The primary process is a way of getting rid of competition and the option for actual change. We’re left with tweedle dee and tweedle dumb, and in many cases like Shelley Mayer just tweedle dee.
The whole process needs to be modernized at least into the 20 th Century. How many seats are not contested nationwide because there is no competition? In many westchester districts it’s like the soviet union with only on candidate. How did we get here?