Tea Party Candidate Withdraws from Governor's Race

[femmocrat]

Tea-party candidate withdraws from governor race

Monday, August 16, 2010
The Associated Press
John Krupa, whose claim to be the tea party candidate for governor was questioned by other leaders of the movement, withdrew from the race today midway through a review of his petition signatures.

Lawyers who spent the weekend sifting through Mr. Krupa's petitions agreed even before review was half complete that more than 5,000 signatures were invalid, said Lawrence Tabas, a Philadelphia attorney representing four people who challenged Krupa's candidacy.

Mr. Krupa needed 19,082 voters' signatures and had turned in about 24,000.

"He didn't have the requisite number," his lawyer, David Montgomery of Pittsburgh, acknowledged.

Mr. Montgomery filed the withdrawal papers Monday just before the state Commonwealth Court in Philadelphia was scheduled to review the case in the first hearing on challenges to more than a half-dozen third-party candidates

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