Reply #5: You know, Rick and cronies paid for those damn signatures

[LynneSin]

the least they could have told the people gathering them was to make sure they were all legitimate because they know that the democrats would challenge them.

Santorum and Romanelli have not only embarassed themselves but embarassed a Green Party whose platform claims that they were above this sort of corruption. I just don't understand why the Green Party isn't doing more to denounce this guy - it truly tarnishes their reputation.

And I know people are going to slam me claiming democrats take repuke money blah blah this and blah blah that. But I'll use this analogy of why Romanelli is a scourge.

Everyone knows I'm a pretty avid non-smoker and I've been in enough flamewars here on DU about non-smokers vs. smokers and their rights. So imagine how the smokers would feel if someone caught me smoking? Here I am this non-smoker yelling at smokers that they have no right to invade my clean air and then I'm caught smoking. Perhaps the smoking was an isolated incident and I lay claim that "Hey I was drinking and sometimes I just crave a cigerette when I drink". But I'm sure plenty of smokers would see that as nothing more than hypocrisy to my anti-smoking crusades.

Green Party needs to wash their hands of Carl Romanelli. It's not like he's the only Green running in the fall election (and rumor has it the Green GOvernor candidate also benefitted from the signatures) but I'm sure there are many local greens running for office in state who earned their rights legitimately to be on the ballot and shouldn't be tarnished by the stupidity of the few in their party