Lauretti Falls Short in Signatures for Primary Ballot.

Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti has not collected the 9,000 signatures required to snag a spot on the August 14th Republican primary for governor. Lauretti competed at the May 12th party convention but did not win 15% of delegate votes on any ballot. He needed 2% of the state’s registered Republicans to sign his petitions.

Rather than burden local registrars, Lauretti will not be submitting the thousands of signatures he has collected.

Lauretti sought the 2014 Republican nomination for governor and also the nomination for lieutenant governor the same year as Mark Boughton’s running mate.

Here’s Lauretti’s statement:

“After a lengthy review of nearly all of the collected petition signatures, the Lauretti campaign has come to the conclusion that it will fall short of the 9,081 valid signatures needed to be included on the August primary ballot.  With more than 80,000 signatures expected to be submitted for verification by other candidates, the Lauretti campaign has decided it is best to not burden locals Registrars and the Secretary of the State with additional work that will not result in Mayor Lauretti getting on the August ballot.  Mayor Lauretti would like to thank all of the people across the state who worked tirelessly over the past few weeks to get him on the ballot, as well as the thousands of people who signed his petitions and believed that he could transform the state of Connecticut as he has the city of Shelton.”

Registrar’s have until June 19th to send results of their petition review to the secretary of the state, who will total them and certify who makes the primary ballot.