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Amber Cole
Amber Cole was an alleged 2014 Green Party candidate seeking election to the U.S. House to represent the 23rd Congressional District of New York.[1] Aaron Andrew Keister submitted petitions for both Cole and another potential Green Party candidate, Darin Robbins, to the New York Board of Elections. However, both Cole and Robbins claimed that they had no idea that Keister was gathering petitions for them, as they had not planned to run. The Federal Elections Board subsequently disqualified Cole and Robbins from the primary.[2]
Issues
Unauthorized petitions
Cole and Darin Robbins claimed that they were unaware that Aaron Andrew Keister was submitting petitions in their names. This called Keister's motives into question. Keister recently received money from the New York Republican Federal Campaign Committee and he previously worked for the National Republican Congressional Committee, so there is speculation that Keister may have been working with Republican incumbent Tom Reed, attempting to add a Green candidate to the general election, which would draw away votes from his Democratic opponent, Martha Robertson.[2] Reed denied any knowledge of Keister's actions.[3]
Elections
2014
Cole was allegedly planning to run in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent New York's 23rd District. The Board of Elections disqualified her petitions after discovering that Cole had not authorized Keister to collect petitions on her behalf.[2] However, John Conklin, spokesperson for the New York Board of Elections, stated that Keister's actions were not illegal, and that they had actually disqualified Cole because the petition listed an invalid address.[4]
Recent news
This section links to a Google news search for the term "Amber + Cole + New York + House"
See also
- United States House of Representatives
- New York's 23rd Congressional District elections, 2014
- New York's 23rd Congressional District
Footnotes
- ↑ New York Board of Elections, "Candidate Petition List," accessed April 14, 2014
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ithaca Journal, "Greens claim 'dirty tricks'," accessed May 19, 2014 (dead link)
- ↑ Olean Times Herald, "Reed says he know nothing about Green Party petitions," accessed May 19, 2014
- ↑ WHCU Radio, "Green Party alleges “predatory politics” in 23rd congressional race," accessed May 19, 2014
