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State Sen. John Waterman is indicating to associates that he does not know if he can submit 33,000 authenticated signatures by Monday to qualify his Taxpayer Party gubernatorial ticket on the November ballot. The informed and reliable source who talked with Waterman earlier this week said that Waterman and his running mate, Glenna Jehl of Fort Wayne, are relying on a network of churches to attain the signatures. The source suggested that Waterman might need more than 40,000 actual signatures in order to cross the 33,000 authenticated signature threshold. The source suggested the odds of doing that "are less than 50 percent." The source added, "I don’t know if this is in the miracle category because I don’t know much about John Price’s network." Waterman initially told the Sullivan Daily Times he would have the signatures a couple of weeks ago. But at a press conference last week, Price said qualifying the ticket would take a "miracle." Waterman (left) is shown here with Jehl and Price at the Indiana Republican Convention on June 2. In related gubernatorial news, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jill Long Thompson landed a $500,000 donation from the SEIU. That comes on top of a Thursday fundraiser that might have netted the campaign something in the $200,000 range. The Thompson campaign has been concentrating on fundraising prior to the June 30 reporting deadline. The campaign is expected to release crucial money totals by July 15. (HPI Photo by Brian A. Howey)
Tags: Glenna Jehl, Jill Long Thompson, John Price, John Waterman
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