More Schneller stuff

We reported yesterday on Democrats’ efforts to get Jim Schneller on the ballot in the 7th Congressional District.

But friend-of-the-site Bill Bender has some more good details in The Daily News. For example, we missed the fact that one of Schneller’s Democratic circulator was the Lentz supporter who served as plaintiff in the ballot challenges that sent his primary opponents packing earlier this year.

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August 4, 2010 at 11:39 am | Comments (0)

Lentz volunteer, other Dems helped Schneller get on the ballot

Getting on the ballot as a third-party candidate is exceedingly difficult in Pennsylvania. For 7th District hopeful Jim Schneller, it seems he couldn’t have done it without some help from Democrat Bryan Lentz and his supporters.

Several Lentz supporters and other local Democratic officials and activists circulated nominating petitions for Schneller, who is running on the American Congress Party ticket. The campaign of Lentz’s Republican opponent Pat Meehan was working Tuesday to document connections between …

August 3, 2010 at 3:26 pm | Comments (49)

3rd-party hopefuls file for House races

Third-party candidates filed nominating petitions to get on the ballot in a trio of competitive House races Monday, setting up potentially troublesome dynamics for Republican nominees who could lose votes in close contests to conservative alternatives.

Jim Schneller filed nominating petitions to run on the American Congress Party Ticket in the 7th District. Tom Lingenfelter filed signatures to run as an independent in the 8th District, but also sought to get on the ballot in …

August 2, 2010 at 10:32 pm | Comments (16)

Schneller says he’ll be on the ballot in the 7th

The competitive 7th District House race could very well end up being a three-man contest.

Jim Schneller, the self-identified Tea Party candidate who is running as an independent, said this week that he has collected enough signatures to get on the ballot. Pennsylvania election law makes it very difficult to gain ballot access as an independent or third-party candidate. Schneller needs about 4,200 signatures, equal to two percent of the total votes that incumbent Congressman …

July 27, 2010 at 10:22 am | Comments (14)

Independent jumps into 7th District race

The contest for the 7th Congressional District got a little more crowded this weekend.

The Delaware County Daily Times …

November 22, 2009 at 9:47 pm | Comments (2)