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Jennifer Martinez Atzberger: Unable to meet petition deadline


I received the following letter this afternoon:

Dear friends and supporters of the Committee to Elect Jennifer Martinez:

Today is obviously a bit of a bittersweet day for those of us who initially worked on the campaign to get my name on the ballot as a Democratic candidate. It is also a tough day for me because I have to inform those of you who are not already aware of the fact that we were
not able to file petitions as an independent candidate in this election.

Although we did obtain several thousand signatures, with a lot of help from many different volunteers, we determined last week that we would not be successful in our goal before the May 1st deadline. There was just not enough time, and the effort required was too much of a strain on myself, and more importantly, on my family.

However, I wanted to sincerely thank those of you who put so much time and effort into helping me in every stage of this campaign. In particular, I want to thank Dave for his amazing efforts on the webpage and on all of our flyers. Thank you to every one who donated to our
campaign, and who volunteered to get signatures.

Finally, I am so grateful to Brenda for taking on this experience with me, and helping
me put together what was obviously a threatening enough campaign to place us on the radar screen of others who did not want to see us on the ballot.

Now I can only encourage everyone to vote for people they truly believe in, and to not let the political elite run this country forever. It will hopefully start today with at least a few deserving candidates making it on to the ballot for the general election.

Good luck to candidates like Joe Young and others who are running for the right reasons!

Thank you again for your support!

Jennifer Martinez

I did indeed vote for Joe Young in this race, and a lot had to do with the civility and levelheadedness with which he approached Jennifer’s situation. It also had to do with the enormous number of yard signs he had all around my area!

Good luck, Joe.

Here’s the post that got it all started.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:23 pm May 2nd, 2006 in Politics 

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2 Responses to “Jennifer Martinez Atzberger: Unable to meet petition deadline”

  1. 1 CindyZawadzki on May 2nd, 2006 10:43 pm

    I voted for Joe too.

  2. 2 Dave on May 3rd, 2006 7:21 pm

    Some of the candidates had extensive Juvenile Court experience, like Joe (and Jennifer), others had Irish names.

    How will the people choose?

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