Bring On Hillary

New York Times Empire State Blog

Jonathan Tasini’s campaign says it has collected the signatures the candidate needs to enter the Democratic primary against Hillary Rodham Clinton. This afternoon, his campaign announced that he plans to appear at the Board of Elections next week to deliver signed ballot-access petitions.

So now the question becomes this: will the Clinton camp or its allies in the Democratic Party move aggressively to keep him off the ballot by legally challenging the validity of the signatures. In anticipation of such a challenge, Mr. Tasini and his supporters say they have collected 30,000 signatures, even though he needed only 15,000 to get on the ballot.

– Raymond Hernandez