{"id":8105,"date":"2006-08-03T09:43:18","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T13:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8105.html"},"modified":"2006-08-03T09:43:18","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T13:43:18","slug":"romanellis-republican-friends-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/romanellis-republican-friends-in-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanelli’s Republican ‘friends’ in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"

We learned on Tuesday that [tag]Carl Romanelli[\/tag], the [tag]Green Party[\/tag] candidate running in the Rick [tag]Santorum[\/tag]\/Bob [tag]Casey[\/tag] Senate race in [tag]Pennsylvania[\/tag], acknowledged<\/a> that Republican contributors “probably supplied most<\/a>” of his campaign’s financial support. As it turns out, that was an understatement.<\/p>\n

Paul Kiel discovered<\/a> yesterday that “every single contributor to the Pennsylvania Green Party Senate candidate is actually a conservative — except for the candidate himself.”<\/p>\n

The Luzerne County Green Party raised $66,000 in the month of June in order to fund a voter signature drive. The Philly Inquirer reported yesterday that $40,000 came from supporters of Rick Santorum’s campaign (or their housemates). Also yesterday, we confirmed that another $15,000 came from GOP donors and conservatives. Only three contributions, totaling $11,000, remained as possible legit donations.<\/p>\n

Today, I confirmed that those came from GOP sources.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed, one of Romanelli’s more generous contributions came from a Halliburton lobbyist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The only non-Republican donation Romanelli received was a $30 contribution that Romanelli gave himself. (The guy is only willing to chip in 30 bucks for his own campaign?)
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\nIn the meantime, the signatures Republicans helped Romanelli collect are facing a challenge<\/a> from Pennsylvania Dems.<\/p>\n

The chairman of the PA Dem party, T.J. Rooney, said today he’ll challenge the signatures that Green Party candidate Carl J. Romanelli submitted to join the Senate ballot. A number of those signatures were collected by JSM, Inc.<\/p>\n

Rooney: “This is a questionable and controversial firm that has a history of fraudulent activity where many signatures, and candidates in some instances, have been thrown off the ballot in various states. We will ensure that this doesn’t take place in Pennsylvania and that the integrity of the electoral process is safeguarded.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As National Journal noted<\/a>, the Green Party has fewer than 20,000 members in Pennsylvania, but collected 67,000 signatures to get a spot on the ballot, while Romanelli turned in more than 90,000 signatures to qualify.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Romanelli boasted<\/a> about having a lot of [tag]Republican[\/tag] “friends.” Apparently, they’re his only<\/i> friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We learned on Tuesday that [tag]Carl Romanelli[\/tag], the [tag]Green Party[\/tag] candidate running in the Rick [tag]Santorum[\/tag]\/Bob [tag]Casey[\/tag] Senate race in [tag]Pennsylvania[\/tag], acknowledged that Republican contributors “probably supplied most” of his campaign’s financial support. As it turns out, that was an understatement. Paul Kiel discovered yesterday that “every single contributor to the Pennsylvania Green Party Senate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}