Klein campaign files 9,000 petition signatures with State Board of Elections

  In an immense showing of support for the reelection of state Senator Jeff Klein (D-Bronx/Westchester,) his campaign filed 9,000 petition signatures with the State Board of Elections on Monday.

The petitions, bound in four volumes, contained nine times the number of signatures required for a state Senate candidate to get onto the ballot. The campaign filed three days in advance of the filing deadline on Thursday.

“This illustrates my support in every corner of the district. It’s tremendously gratifying when 9,000 Democrats want you to be the standard bearer of the Party. I want to thank each and every person who knocked on doors throughout my district and each and every person who signed one of my petitions for their support. I’d also like to thank the political clubs that carried my petitions through the 34th State Senate District,” said state Senator Jeff Klein.

The local candidates of the Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club are shown holding nearly five hundred sheets of petitions containing nearly forty six hundred signatures of enrolled democrats to place the local democratic slate on the ballot. The signatures, which will also qualify for the ballot over three hundred members of the Bronx Democratic County Committee, were collected the old fashioned way: through grass roots, door-to-door canvasing. Pictured from left to right are Male Democratic District Leader Candidate Eric Dinowitz, Female Democratic District Leader Randi Martos, Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, Democratic State Committeeman William Weitz, Male Democratic District Leader Bruce Feld, and Democratic State Committeewoman Hellen Morik.