( – promoted by EaBo Clipper) While Team Ogonowski ponders its options after it failed to secure enough certified signatures to place its candidate on the ballot, the reality is that the O-Man has no chance of getting back into the game of taking on Kerry. Sure, Team Ogonowski can put the blame on a handful of town/city clerks for…

State: Ogonowski 30 signatures short for Senate bid

By Matt Murphy, mmurphy@lowellsun.com

Article Last Updated: 06/03/2008 06:24:23 PM EDT BOSTON — Republican Senate hopeful Jim Ogonowski has fallen 30 signatures short of qualifying for the ballot this fall to run against Sen. John Kerry, according to the Secretary of State’s office. Shortly after the 5 p.m. deadline, Galvin spokeswoman Brian…

Here is a statement from the Ogonowski Campaign. ” Earlier today, the Ogonowski Campaign released a statement signifying that more than 10,000 certified signatures would be submitted on behalf of Jim Ogonowski to the Secretary of State’s Office. That statement was accurate and those signatures were delivered. However, when submitted to the Secretary of State’s Office we were notified that…

In a major embarrassment to Republican leaders in Massachusetts and in the US Senate, Jim Ogonowski, the party’s anointed candidate to challenge Democratic Senator John F. Kerry, failed by a razor-thin margin today to qualify for the GOP primary ballot. With Ogonowski’s stunning blunder, the only GOP name on the primary ballot will be Jeff Beatty, a little-known security expert…

Below please find an unedited letter to the voters from Jim Ogonowski as delivered to me in a press release. Dear Voters: Despite what you may have read, I am proud to tell you that I will be turning in more than the required 10,000 certified signatures to get on the ballot.  I am thankful to the 22,000 people across…

We will soon know the political landscape for the Massachusetts GOP as the contest V. Senator John Kerry starts to become more clear.…

I’m not sure if there are problems but rumors of more shananigans are reaching me. So, for the sake of the Republican Party and for the sake of those who worked hard collecting signatures for Ogonowski, I just hope no one gets ito trouble over signature fraud. Sometimes people do unwise things in desperate situations but the signature requirement is…