(Radio Iowa) – A state panel has accepted challenges to the nominating petitions Democrat Xavier Corrigan submitted for the third district congressional primary and Corrigan accepts that he did not qualify for the ballot. “I’m not in here for some big fight,” Corrigan said. “You’re not going to get some big pushback from me.”
Corrigan says his campaign spent less than three-thousand dollars to get the signatures on his nominating petitions — and fell a handful short. “I am here to show the American people in his country that it can be done,” Corrigan said, “and all it would have taken was a little bit more effort on my part.”
The decision means Sarah Trone Garriott is unopposed and will be Democrats’ nominee to face Republican Congressman Zach Nunn in the General Election. The State Objection Panel will reconvene tomorrow (Wednesday) to determine whether Eddie Andrews has qualified to run in the Republican Primary for governor.
As the group reviewed objections today (Tuesday), Andrews repeatedly said he was not properly notified and did not have all the paperwork he needed to respond to detailed questions. Andrews told reporters an intern stole nominating petitions from five counties, so he and campaign volunteers scrambled right up to the filing deadline to make up for that.
