A three-member state panel has ruled Republican Ron Corbett did not meet the legal requirements and his name will not be printed on the Iowa June Primary ballot as a challenger to Governor Kim Reynolds. The panel spent a couple of hours reviewing the paperwork and hearing arguments from attorneys. In the end, they decided Corbett fell eight signatures short of what was required on his nominating petitions.
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Corbett could file a lawsuit to try to get his name on the ballot, but his comments after the hearing seem to indicate that’s unlikely.
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On the Democratic side, there are SIX candidates running for governor in the June Primary. Iowa’s secretary of state, attorney general and state auditor met for nearly five hours to review challenges of the nominating petitions submitted by Corbett and seven OTHER candidates who planned to run in the June Primaries.
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