Oh wow: State Senate challenger Dan Squadron's campaign just released their petitioning numbers.
Standing in front of the Board of Elections, he announced that his campaign collected over 8,000 signatures on individual nominating petitions – more than eight times the number (1,000) required to be placed on the ballot for the September 9th primary.
"It's wonderful to see the incredible excitement for the type of energetic representation I hope to bring this district," Squadron said. "In every neighborhood, in Brooklyn and Manhattan, people are saying the same thing: it is time to demand more."
Squadron's opponent, Martin Connor, who works part-time as an election lawyer, has knocked countless candidates off the ballot, and has pursued legal challenges against every serious opponent he has faced since 1980—from a lengthy court battle that he ultimately lost against Luis Osorio in 1992 to a residency challenge against Ken Diamondstone that was decided in Diamondstone's favor by the State's highest court.
What's interesting here is that 8,000 signatures is just south of the number of actual votes (9,238 to 11,459) that challenger Ken Diamondstone received in 2006.
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