Harrell Gets Signatures to Take on Mahoney

April 21st, 2008 at 10:04am Anthony Bonna

From the Palm Beach Post…
State Rep. Gayle Harrell, R-Port St. Lucie, assured herself a spot on the ballot for Congress - and gained grass-roots bragging rights in her competitive primary - by collecting at least 4,794 signatures from voters in the district represented by freshman Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney.

Harrell appears to be the only local congressional candidate to get on the ballot via the signature method. Other partisan candidates will have to pay a $9,912 filing fee next week.

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“We truly feel that we’re the hardest-working grass-roots campaign in this race,” Harrell deputy campaign manager Anthony Bonna said. “We’re the only Republican campaign in this race ready to take on Tim Mahoney.”

Harrell used an 11,000-piece mailing and circulated petitions at events and in door-to-door canvassing to gather the signatures. The 4,794-signature figure derives from a state law requiring petitions from 1 percent of the voters who were registered in the district in the last general election.

Both of Harrell’s Republican primary rivals, attorney Rooney and former Palm Beach Gardens councilman Hal Valeche, collected signatures but fell short of the state requirement.

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From TCPALM

State Rep. Gayle Harrell, R-Stuart, has became the first to qualify in her race by collecting the required 4,794 signatures of registered voters from the eight counties in the 16th Congressional District.

“This was really the first test of grassroots campaigning,” said Anthony Bonna, Harrell’s deputy campaign manager. “It’s obviously going to take a lot of work to win this seat: mailing efforts, door-to-door efforts, going around to events, appealing to friends and neighbors. And this is the kind of grassroots operation that will bring us victory in November.”

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