IN Dem Misses The Deadline
Updated at 12:23 p.m.
Restaurant owner Tamyra d'Ippolito (D) has enough signatures to make the ballot in the race to replace Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN), she told Hotline OnCall in a brief interview, but an official in a key district says she has failed to reach the threshold.
An official in Marion Co. (IN) tells Hotline OnCall d'Ippolito turned in just 3 signatures in the 7th CD, the district with the highest percentage of Dem voters. The noon deadline has passed, meaning d'Ippolito failed to meet the requirements to get on the ballot. She would have been required to submit 4,500 signatures, including at least 500 from each of the state's 9 districts.
Reached at her home, d'Ippolito said she was on her way out the door to drop off more signatures at the county clerk's office. "To my knowledge, yes we do. There's people putting in signatures as we speak," d'Ippolito said when asked if she has the signatures necessary to qualify for the ballot. "The answer is yes."
D'Ippolito's candidacy would have thrown a serious wrench in Dem hopes of keeping the seat. She would have prevented the state party from filling the vacancy with a candidate of their own, likely an experienced contender.
"We're going to have 4,500 signatures today, and we're going to keep getting signatures
today and tomorrow and all the way up until the election," d'Ippolito said. But because the counting process takes a long time, d'Ippolito said she would not know for sure if she has made the ballot for a while. "It's not an instantaneous process even though we're very used to that in American life. It takes days to weeks to count all these signatures, so we're not going to really have any idea for a while."
GOPers, sensing an opportunity, mobilized in some places to help d'Ippolito make the ballot. In a posting on her campaign website, d'Ippolito says she needs more signatures in the 8th CD, specifically in Terre Haute and Evansville. Instead, it was the 7th CD -- based around Indianapolis -- where she fell short.
Meanwhile, Dems are increasingly looking to Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D) as the candidate they want on the ballot to replace Bayh. House strategists are quietly beginning to prepare for his Senate bid, which means they will have to find another candidate to run in the competitive 8th district.
A regular middle class business woman as a candidate. It might be just what Dems need.
It takes weeks to count to 3? This lady is 11 eggs short of a dozen
They reached her AFTER the deadline, and she just wanted to load off more signatures? What about the rules does that lady not understand?
Maybe she shouldn't have wasted time with posing for Fox News, and instead worked her ass off like a good candidate should, then she could have pulled this off, with all this republican support. Good for the Dems this weirdo didn't make it.
Hey shes running as a democrat! They dont need no stinking rules!
Saw her on Fox, dumber than a fence post. Would have made the perfect Dem candidate, if only she could have counted past 3.
Freddy - it appears you're the one who is 11 eggs short of a dozen. The woman quite clearly said she's still collecting signatures and would turn in at least 4,500. And if you know anything about the process, you'd know she was referring to the Board of Elections or whatever body in Indiana that is responsible for verifying and certifying the results.
Sheesh.
She actually only turned in 2 signatures for the 7th District. Not all of Marion County/Indianapolis is in the 7th district. One of the signatures was actually a 5th district signature.
yeah... Sorry Tamyra... you get a big fat FAIL.
This was an absolute and utterly DISGRACEFUL way to diss ALL the voters of Indiana by the Democrat establishment. Think about it - they only wanted a handpicked candidate and left the people in the lurch. So they time the announcement to make a primary IMPOSSIBLE.
Whichever hand-picked insider they make their nominee deserves to lose bigtime.
You mean that there weren't over 3 Republicans in Indy that would sign her petition in order to screw the Dems? Is the claim that when she was collecting signatures, she forgot the state capital? Its only about 30 miles from where she lives.
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