“Newt and I agreed that the analogy is December 1941,” Campaign Director Michael Krull wrote on Gingrich’s official Facebook page Saturday, describing the Virginia’s Republican Party’s announcement that the Gingrich campaign had failed to submit enough signatures to qualify for the party’s March primary ballot. And Team Newt quickly followed up on his promise to fight back. A third party group, Citizens for the Republic, has hired former Virginia Democratic party chairman Paul Goldman to challenge Newt’s exclusion from the ballot in court.
Goldman has not identified how he will challenge the Virginia GOP (a press release only said “we intend to formally challenge such certification for specific reasons to be detailed at the appropriate time”), but many anticipate a suit would center on the Virginia Republican party’s decision actually to count the number of signatures each campaign submitted to get on the ballot.
