Insider discusses petition against Goldsack, Wright: "It should be entertaining"

The following exclusive is from emails from people with knowledge of the petition against Bob Goldsack and Patricia Wright for problems with their paperwork to get on the Democratic ballot.

Just an update on the court proceedings this morning.

1. Robert Goldsack withdrew his Republican petition challenge against Sue Schor and Pam Lutfy. The case was not heard in court, and the two women will remain on the Republican ballot. Apparently, once Goldsack retained the services of Weinstein Kannebacker, he must have been advised that since he was challenging them on the basis of many of the things that he was defending himself against, winning his case could only jeopardize his own. Heckuva job, Bob.

2. The petition challenges in Lehman township regarding non-filing of the Statement of Financial Interest were heard and Judge Kameen will rule shortly. The first petition was Democratic incumbent Roseann Van Why's challenge of Denise Jenius's nom. petition to run for tax collector in Lehman. The second petition was Republican incumbent for supervisor Paul Menditto challenging Democratic candidate Andre Felder. ... Only one of the two had been properly served with the petition to set aside their nomination petition. Mr. Felder did not even know why he was there until he arrived at court. The basis of both challenges was that the Statement of Financial Interest had not been filed with the township. However, testimony was brought from both respondents as well as DVSD Republican candidate Jack Fisher that Director of Elections Yolanda Goldsack had not only given every candidate in the county who filed a Statement of Interest the wrong copy, but also gave information to multiple if not all county candidates that the yellow copy (the one she should have kept to file with the States Ethics Panel) was to be filed in their townships or school board offices at "some point," instead of specifically on the last filing day for nomination petitions. (This was confirmed with several other candidates who were not in attendance.) This was incorrect information coupled with incorrect receipting, for which there is specific filing instruction as to which copy should be filed where, etc. Stay tuned.

3. As for the Forrest petitions against Goldsack and Wright, this gets interesting. Mr. Goldsack appeared with attorney Tom Mincer who was standing in for Charles Kannebecker. Because Ms. Wright's case was rolled in with Mr. Goldsack's, Mr. Mincer requested time to submit affidavits from the signers, Dominca Campanella (Ms. Forrest had an opportunity to speak with her as well -- she claims that all of the affidavits came in on March 6 as her notary book shows, even though the date filed on the nom. petition is still Feb. 19), and to get the original nomination petition which had not been presented to the court. As Ms. Forrest only today received – by first class mail, mind you – the notice of day and time of the court session, the ability for her to subpoena anyone by this morning was an impossibility. She graciously allowed Mr. Goldsack's and Ms. Wright's attorneys the time they needed for their clients to get their stories straight. It should be entertaining. It is also probable that considering the clobbering that Ms. Goldsack's reputation took in the earlier cases (she was not present), Goldsack may have decided to save his wife further open court embarrassment. Stay tuned.