From Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
On January 13, Les Turulli, a Missouri businessman, said he will be an independent candidate for Governor of Missouri in 2016. See this story. He will need 10,000 valid signatures. No independent has appeared on the Missouri ballot for Governor since 1976. Back then, if a non-partisan candidate wished, he or she could file in the “non-partisan primary” and the state would hold such a primary and the winner would be placed on the November ballot. That provision was seldom used, however. Missouri had a straight-ticket device back then, and a party-column ballot, and independent candidates were placed on the far-right column of the November ballot with no logo and no straight-ticket device, so being an independent candidate back then in Missouri was not an attractive option.
This guy is a fundamentalist correct? Why isn’t he in the CP or other religious right party? He’s wasting his time without their backing.