Roger Hull’s mayoral campaign submitted twice the number of signatures to create his independent Alliance Party with the Schenectady County Board of Elections by today’s filing deadline.
Hull’s campaign filed 1,489 signatures by the 5 p.m. deadline; the campaign needed 631.
Hull’s campaign manager, Brian Young, said the campaign filed more than the required signatures to fend off any challenge by supporters of acting mayor Gary McCarthy.
People have until Friday to file general objections to the independent party nominating petitions and six days thereafter to file specific challenges, according to election officials. Hull said he is confident the Alliance Party petitions will survive a challenge.
“At this point, having rung doorbells since June 8, I feel very comfortable and confident with the signatures we got,” he said. “I enjoyed the process tremendously and found that when I spoke with people I found hundreds and hundreds who had major concerns about the direction of the city.”
McCarthy is the Democratic candidate for mayor and is serving as acting mayor until the November election, following the resignation this spring of Brian Stratton. Stratton took a job as executive director of the state Canal Corp. under Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Unless the petitions are invalidated, Hull will have two lines in November’s election: the Republican Party line and the independent Alliance Party line. Hull is also forcing primaries in September to obtain several minor party lines now held by McCarthy and Democrats seeking seats on the Schenectady City Council.
Hull said he is confident the Alliance Party petitions will survive a challenge.
“At this point, having rung doorbells since June 8, I feel very comfortable and confident with the signatures we got,” he said. “I enjoyed the process tremendously and found that when I spoke with people I found hundreds and hundreds who had major concerns about the direction of the city.”
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