According to Eric Dondero, Americans Elect has suspended all its petitioning across the nation, except that Americans Elect will complete its Texas petition. Dondero is a veteran petitioner and petition drive organizer.
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So I guess this means AE is gone?
No. Take anything from Dondi with a heapin’ helpin’ of salt, unless confirmed from other independent sources.
If true, sounds like AE will not achieve 50 state ballot access. Too bad, if so, as I thought this would be an excellent springboard for not only a non-hyperpartisan ticket, but also an excellent primer to folks on what it takes to achieve nationwide ballot access.
I wonder if they will even modify their nomination rules to place a nominee for the remaining 28 or so states with ballot access already.
Texas’ petition is probably safely above the +50K threshhold, but just not submitted yet. Glad they will be completing it at least.
Their sole purpose was to dilute the GOP vote and get the Muslim usurper re-elected. Answer the multiple-choice questionnaire on their website and notice how every answer slants left.
Another Soros tool, to be added to the illegals and the dead people who vote.
We invite all Arizona voters interested in electoral politics to join the Arizona Americans Elect Party. Register as an Americans Elect voter in Arizona — easy to do online — and you can run for any partisan office as a write-in candidate just by filing simple papers with the Secretary of State’s office in Phoenix. (Easiest is to run for the U.S. Senate or Congress; other candidates may also have to fill out financial information.) You can register as a write-in in Arizona at any time after petitioning for the ballot ends on May 30 until July 17. And best of all, if you get a plurality of the write-in votes that count (and in Arizona, the only votes that will count are those for candidates who’ve registered with the secretary of state), you will win the primary, with as little as one vote.
Ballot access for candidates has never been easier. All of you who live in Arizona who’ve always thought about running — people interested in politics, like those above who’ve commented — now is your chance to be a candidate. And please spread the word to anyone you know in Arizona whom you think might be interested in running. We are trying to get as many candidates on the ballot as possible: essentially we will be a party of independents.
Thanks.
Wow, people are already trying to co-opt the party.
@5 – I like what you are saying. The Presidential election part of Americans Elect was doomed from the start, but they have made it so much easier for independents to run for lower offices all across the country.
@6 – What Grayson is planning on doing with Americans Elect is not co-opting. The purpose of Americans Elect is to allow independents to be able to compete in elections. Grayson is just helping with that.
If AE is giving up, why are they continuing with Texas?
@7 Americans Elect made it pretty clear they don’t intend to run candidates for other offices. At least not this year.
Oh, and this is Dondero, so it’s probably false.
AECorp owner/operator Peter Ackerman is channeling Rod Blagojevich. “I’ve got this f***in thing and its golden!” How much do you suppose he could sell his 27- (or 28-, with Texas) state ballot access for to the highest bidder, such as Peter G. Peterson or Peter Thiel? Ackerman’s financial specialty is distressed assets. Americans Elect is both an asset and distressed. Ka-ching!
How could he sell AE and its ballot access? Easy. For the right sum Ackerman has his AE Board of Directors vote themselves, and him, out of power there, and the new buyer and his toadies in as Chairman and board members. Bylaw 4.1 empowers AECorp’s board to “compel or take any action” it desires, so whoever controls the Board controls AE and can, for instance, simply award the nomination by fiat.
It really is f***in golden.
Oh, and this is Jed Siple. So, whatever he says is probably false.
Dude, I’m on the ground. I and other petitioners were told definitively to “stand down.” We were told there would be no more AE petitioning. Can’t get any clearer than that.
Americans Elect is a dysfunctional group – from the amount of money spent ($35 million dollars) to the companies they hired to get ballot access in 28 states. Why finish Texas? They don’t have a candidate.
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