Kentucky and Mississippi are the only two states that elect Governors this year. According to this story, an independent candidate will try to collect the 5,000 signatures needed to get on the ballot for Governor of Kentucky. The signatures are due August 11.
The candidate’s name was Terrill Newman, but on March 31 he legally changed his name to Gatewood Galbraith. The original Gatewood Galbraith died in 2012, but he had quite a following when he ran for Governor outside the two major parties in recent past Kentucky elections. In 2011 he polled 74,860 votes (9.0%) as an independent. In 1999 he was the Reform Party nominee and polled 88,930 votes (15.3%).
The new Gatewood Galbraith says he respects the legacy of the original Galbraith, and will try to carry on Galbraith’s platform and ideas.
Do you think either or both of them has enough money and/or volunteers to make the ballot?
The KY Executive Branch elections are this year, in 2015. The deadline to file initial paperwork if you wanted to seek an office as a non-D/R was April 1st at 4PM.
I asked our state chair if anyone had stepped up on March 27th, and at that time no one had.
I spoke to Mary Sue Helm, the filing officer at the Ky SOS office, on April 2nd, and no Libertarians had signed up. Only 2 candidates filed paperwork to run as a non-D/R. Mrs Curtis and Galbraith 2.0 were the only 2, and they both filed for Governor as Independents.
I’m not sure if he’s on the ballot yet either, or even if he will be.
Thanks. That clarifies it. I was reading about Drew Curtis and listening to some of his interviews and wondering if he’d be the only potential challenger in the race.
Governors election – you are correct. It is unlikely that the LP will be on the ballot for that, since that also takes 5k valid signatures, and it’s unlikely that the national LP will finance that, nor that the LPKY will come up with the money on its own. I guess we’ll see if the independent candidates will have enough resources to get on the ballot.
The Presidential election and a US senate election will be next year, and that’s the one that I do anticipate the LP being on the ballot for, with a signature drive starting this November. IDK if the LP wil have anyone with the guts to run against Rand Paul for Senate. I hope they do.
Paulie – Isn’t the election this November?
Any of them will need 5,000 valid sigs.
LPKY is on the schedule in the Ballot Access plan Bill Redpath included in his list 2 or more ballot access reports which appear in the publicly available LNC meeting minutes. They’ll be allowed to start getting signatures this November, after the first Tuesday of that month.
That makes two independents in the race, along with Drew Curtis.
Is LP-Kentucky planning on running anybody?
I’m not sure whether adopting someone else’s name to run for office should be considered a sign of respect or disrespect. It treads a fine line, much like a lot of US flag merchandising that technically violates the flag code.
This would have been great for April 1st.
The headline made me think we accidentlly grabbed a story from the wrong year.
The original Gatewood was a good guy and a lot of people liked him so it’s pretty smart for this guy to try to get in on that popularity. Hopefully he will live up to the name.