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Updated: Feb 3, 2012 8:12 PM
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH/AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum failed to qualify for the Indiana May 8 presidential primary ballot.
State Republican Chairman Eric Holcomb tells 24-Hour News 8 that Santorum failed to gather enough signatures in one district.
All statewide candidates are required to obtain 500 valid signatures from each of Indiana's nine congressional districts in order to be placed on the ballot. The Marion County Board of Elections has ruled that Santorum fell 24 signatures short in Indiana's 7th District.
Santorum told reporters in Missouri on Friday that he is challenging the ruling. Indiana supporters say the board incorrectly threw out 200 signatures submitted by the campaign.
The Indiana Republican Party says former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney have all gathered enough signatures to qualify for the primary.
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hunter480 | March 2 2012 7:45pm
indyreader ignores the facts that would negate his typical liberal argument, meant only to further his liberal agenda. The Founders not only had prayer before they did the peoples work in the first Congress, they had a worship service. You may attempt to revise our history, but it won`t work. John Adamns said this: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other"
grouchies | February 16 2012 8:16am
INDY READER , im with you, every last word of it !!!!!!!!!!
indyreader | February 6 2012 9:51am
What semantics game? Seems the idea is pretty settled in case law under the Constitution. The government has no business promoting any specific religion or religion in general.
Quiz question for ya, hunter. Who said the following?:
"We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate.
All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to to speak of and act on their belief.
At the same time that our Constitution prohibits state establishment of religion, it protects the free exercise of all religions. And walking this fine line requires government to be strictly neutral."
I don't hate Jesus - I feel no particular bias either way. If your religion makes you do good things - fine. It's no business of mine, nor especially of government to get involved in the supernatural. The government is like a utility, except that the service or product it supplies is law. What business does it have to favor people with one set of beliefs over another? That's the small-government conservatism I'm talking about. And again, having heard Santorum's ideas, it's abundantly clear to me that he would push his religious views into law.
hunter480 | February 6 2012 6:44am
You`re just playing a semantics game. Santorum is like many politicians, in that, his faith is a huge part of his life, and therefore, helps shape his approach to the world. If all politicians held strong views of faith, you would not see the level of corruption and graft that is present today, and it`s unbelievable that anyone can find fault with that. Some people however, in their raging hatred of religion, and specifically, their hatred of Christ, would prefer the evil and muck we live in today rather than a cleaner, more wholesome society with Christ at it`s center.
indyreader | February 5 2012 7:11pm
I have little problem with small-government conservatives. I have a big problem with theocrats who call themselves conservatives. I've listened to enough of his own words to tell that Santorum is really the latter, and I'm glad he's not seriously in the running.
hunter480 | February 3 2012 10:00pm
Rick Santorum NEEDS to be on the ballot. He`s the only TRUE conservative running......
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