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Colbert’s Presidential bid ends
By Karyn Chenoweth Nov 2, 2007, 4:57 GMT
Stephen Colbert - © Janet Mayer / Photorazzi
Truthiness slinger Stephen Colbert’s satirical presidential campaign came to an halt on Thursday when the Democratic Party in South Carolina decided he was not serious and refused to approve his application to get his name on the primary ballot.
Colbert, a native South Carolinian, had sought to get on the state ballot.
He balked at the costliness of the Republican line, which would have cost $35,000. A space on the Democratic ballot costs $2,500, which Colbert had ponied up by Thursday’s deadline.
Carol Fowler, the chairwoman of the state’s Democratic Party, said the party’s executive council determined that Colbert did not meet two basic requirements: that he be generally acknowledged as a viable nationwide candidate; and that he be actively campaigning for the state’s primary.
The council voted 13 to 3 against certifying him.
The council noted they were fans however.
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Garrett 'Garrdor' DeRoseNov 2nd, 2007 - 14:49:51
Only in America would people refuse a genious the ranks of our elite - and instead hold highly the backwater idiots who hold our general population's standards to a depressing low.
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