I have heard from a few other volunteers that Mayor Murray has already collected his 10,000 certified signatures to get on the ballot in September. I figured as much, but this is the first I have heard of the campaign reaching its certified signature goal. Supposedly they will be announcing that they have reached their goal tomorrow.
This will make Mayor Murray the first Lt. Governor candidate to collect the required 10,000 nomination signatures!!
I credit this great accomplishment to the campaigns amazing field organization and volunteer outreach. They have organized hundreds of volunteers on any given Saturday and had them out at events collecting signatures. I know because I was one of them. I have done my fair share of signature collection for Tim Murray for the past few Saturdays and the occasional town meeting.
The Murray Campaign and all of their volunteers worked hard to meet their goal. They not only achieved it but knocked it out of the park by reaching it before all other contenders with time to spare. So glad I picked a winner 🙂
Now we can concentrate on other things like the convention and the primary…
SSL, you are the greatest. This post definitely wins my personal award for unabashed boosterism of the day. I’m looking forward to a follow-up tomorrow: Tim Murray gets dressed, buys coffee, feels like a winner! I don’t doubt that all the LG candidates will get their 10,000 sigs.
I hope they do! No doubt Goldberg can buy the rest of hers now, Silbert should be able to get hers in time. . . the only one I worry about is Kelley. Personally, I hope they are all able to get on the ballot. I’m just happy my candidate got there first.
the people responsible for the fraudulent papers for at least part of the resistance to sign nomination papers. Even as a Murray supporter I signed Kelley’s papers. It is a sad statement if he does not get the 10,000 needed and people can buy them.
Some people are so suspicious now of signature collectors. It’s smart to take a good look at what you’re signing, but I practically had to give some people a sworn declaration that I was not a paid volunteer and their names wouldn’t end up on some website.
When my group was out getting Deval sigs, we were asked a couple of times whether their name would be on a website. We said we wouldn’t but that they were public record and there was the theoretical chance they could be. Scared some people off, but I felt I had to tell them that. 99% of people signed, though.
…from what I’ve heard from my town clerk.
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So I think the news is rather “Murray Supporter First to Announce Signature Gathering Complete on Most Popular and Relevant Democratic Blog.”
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I’ve heard Murray will be the first statewide candidate to announce that he has gathered over 10,000 certified signatures today. Because the number of signatures is part of public records I did a little checking around. Murray was thousands ahead of both Silbert and Goldberg. Goldberg and Silbert will both get there. Goldberg paid over $12,000 to get the signatures. I wonder what type of campaign she’s running. No field and she clearly she cant raise any money on her own. Silbert is around 8000 signatures. But it looks like the Kelly will not make the cut. He only had 1500 certified signatures yesterday. Unless he drops a butt load trying to catch up this weekend (which I dont see happening) I think his days on the campaign trial are numbered. This is a great tribute to the over 500 people who have helped Tim’s field organization collect signatures from communities all around the state.
One of us if lying or one of us was lied to. I think it’s the latter and I think I was told incorrect info.
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If you have a way to find out this public info (other than asking your town clerk, which is what I did) can you let us know?
I am friends with my hometown clerks offic. This year all clerks offices are linked together so they are able to see each candidates total of number of certified signatures. That’s how I got my information.
I wonder if she’s going to hire people around the state to do her field. Not that there are may uncommitted activists left.
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She’ll probably go up on TV with ads or some waste of money like that.
Wow, FD…you take a shot at me on the other diary and you’re either full of it by saying Murray had 500 signature gathers or they are totally inept people who average 50 certified signatures each. Which is it? I suspect the former.
Good for him…I think its great that his campaign:
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1) Didn’t have to pay for signatures!
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2) Has the support and grassroots field organization to have done this so successfully!
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3) Can now focus on other things instead of scrambling around for signatures!!
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Also, the fact that only around 3,000 of the signatures were from Worcester county is a great indication to me that these supporters are from all over the state, and that Tim is really going all guns out to win this race. Kudos to him!
I have no point of reference here — isn’t 30% considered a disproportionate amount?
considering a large percentage of the MA population is located in major cities like Boston, Worcester and Springfield.
I am in agreement with you that 30% is kind of disproportional but at the same when you think about the total popultion of worcester (172,648 according to http://worcester.areaconnect.com/statistics.htm), it is not so bad. 3000 is only about 1 percent of his city’s population . I take this as him saying “I could have stayed in my own city to collect my sigs, but I wanted to prove I had support outside this area”. Any thoughts?
Worcester represented 11.5 % of the ’02 gubernatorial voter (239,000 out of 2,074,000 votes cast). So clearly 30% of the signatures coming from Worcester is disproportionate compared to the amount of votes it casts. Despite the spin given.