Remember this guy? When we last checked in with Captain Charisma, a.k.a. Dr. Stephen Porter, the twice-failed Democratic congressional candidate had renounced his party and embarked on a quixotic campaign against GOP Rep. Phil English as an independent.
One petition challenge later…
An independent candidate for Congress does not have enough valid signatures on his nomination petitions to have his name on the November ballot, a state judge ruled.
Senior Commonwealth Court Judge James R. Kelley ruled Tuesday that 1,542 of the more than 3,200 signatures Steven Porter collected were invalid because Porter helped some voters fill out his nomination petitions. Porter needed 2,171 valid signatures to be on the ballot.
Porter is vowing to soldier on as a write-in candidate. Good luck with that, sir.
SSP currently rates this race as Lean Republican.
(H/T: PolitickerPA.com)
For Dahlkemper. In what is likely to be a close election, every percentage point (and fraction thereof) counts a lot.
I saw “Porter thrown off ballot” and thought for a minute it was the Porter from Nevada.
Wonder when the last time was that someone won as a write-in candidate for congress.