A group of Democrats is announcing a write-in campaign this morning to get Progressive Anthony Pollina's name on the Democratic Party line for governor.
Pollina's name will be on the Progressive Party ballot in the September primary, and you can only run in one, but he'd love to have enough write-in votes to also have his name on the Democratic line in November.
Of course, many-a-Democrat has said if Pollina wants to show he has support among Democrats he should run in the Democratic primary.
"That's what Peter Clavelle did and it didn't work," said Prog Chris Pearson, friend and political confidant to Pollina. "People know him as a Progressive and for him to suddenly run as a Democrat doesn't pass straight-face test."
If Pollina did run in the Democratic primary, that might make a Democrat or two more willing to jump into the race and take him on head-to-head in September, but the potential that this would be a three-way race in November among Republican Jim Douglas, Prog Pollina and Mystery Democrat has kept would-be candidates at bay.
- Terri Hallenbeck