Daily News | West Philly City Council candidate drops out of heated race amid legal challenge
over alleged defects in petitions last week — a time-honored political tradition in which voters, often aligned with rival campaigns, try to get candidates booted off the ballot in city races.claiming that more than half of the voter signatures Jones filed to get on the ballot were defective. Candidates running for district Council seats need to submit 750 valid voter signatures. Jones filed about 940, meaning just a few hundred faulty autographs could doom his campaign.
He also expressed frustration that a Court of Common Pleas judge on Friday tossed his own challenge against Gauthier’s nominating petitions, in which he claimed she had failed to disclosure a source of income on her statement of financial interest in a company called Liberty Housing & Planning Cooperation.
Gauthier testified under oath on Friday that she never drew income from the firm, which she co-founded in 2004 with former classmates in an urban planning graduate program, a campaign spokesperson said. She had forgotten the company was still incorporated. Her campaign nonetheless filed an amended financial interest last week disclosing a 25% stake.
With Jones out of the race, Gauthier has a clearer path to securing the Democratic nomination in the May 16 primary.
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