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By James Roxbury and Jamie Serra
Friday August 09, 2013 at 11:47 am

Updated on 8/9/13 at 3:54 pm.

Dan Miller is in as a Republican. Video Twenty Five Dollars.

Updated on 8/9/13 at 2:31 pm.

At 1:20 pm Nate Curtis met a member of the Sheriff's office at the Midtown Scholar to receive his petition challenge. After accepting his paperwork Nate expressed his frustration with the challenge, " I go off to war, I come back from Afghanistan, and I just want to help my city, and this is the thanks I get?"

Donald Lee Coles, Sr. has filed the following objections to Nevin Mindlin's candidacy for Mayor.

Mindlin is being challenged on his failure to specify the names of individuals authorized to fill vacancies on his campaign committee should any occur.

The instructions on the nomination petitions specify that a list of 3 to 5 people must be specified to fill vacancies on the candidates' campaign committee. This must be done prior to collecting signatures and filing the completed petitions.

As a result, the petitioners claim that Mindlin's petitions are incomplete. If upheld, such a claim requires the court to reject his Nomination Papers and strike his name from the ballot.

Nevin Mindlin campaign kickoff. "Our serious lack of competent leadership."

Autumn L. Cooper and Joseph K. Lahr have filed objections to challenge the candidacy of Nate Curtis for Mayor. Here's a copy of their challenge. Joseph L. Lahr is involved with the Dauphin County GOP and is listed as their leader in Harrisburg on their website. Mr. Lahr is also involved in a 35 million dollar lawsuit against the city of harrisburg, see page 79-80.

Cooper and Lahr's filing alleges that Mr. Curtis is ineligible to be elected or serve as Mayor of Harrisburg due to his failure to meet residency requirements pursuant to the Third Class City Code. This is an issued we raised when Nate Curtis officially announced his candidacy for Mayor.

In addition to residency requirements, Cooper and Lahr highlight the fact that Curtis' nomination petitions omit the required "Committee to Fill Vacancies" on each of the nomination petitions that were circulated and filed. As a result, the petitioners claim that all of Nate's petitions must be disregarded.

The last charge filed against Curtis is for filing a defective statement of financial interest. In the original statement Curtis filed he did not disclose any creditors, and he specified that his only source of income was from the Pennsylvania Air National Guard.

The last challenge stipulates that Curtis had at least one creditor to whom he owed more than $6,500 dollars and income greater than $1,300 dollars from an additional source that he did not disclose. Pennsylvania law requires both of these instances to be disclosed.

Video of Autum Cooper as a Thompson appointee to the Harrisburg Board of Control. Vote to terminate Dr. Kohn's contract.

For the second time during this election cycle Harrisburg resident Paul N. Thompson by his attorney Karen Balaban is challenging the candidacy of Jennifer Smallwood.

Karen Balaban filed the petition in Dauphin County court on August 7, 2013. Read the Petition here. Petition To Set Aside Nomination Paper.

Balaban list four reasons why all signatures on all pages of the Candidate's Nomination Paper should be struck and requests the court remove the Candidate's name from the ballot.

a. The Nomination Paper failed to provide the names and place of residence of at least three persons to act as a committee authorized to fill vacancies;

b. Signers of the Nomination Paper failed to appoint at least three persons authorized to act as a committee authorized to fill any vacancy caused by the death or withdrawal of Candidate;

c. Each Affidavit of Qualified Elector on pages 1 through 9 of the Nomination Paper is false in that the signers to the Nomination Paper did not sign the Nomination Paper with full knowledge of the contents thereof since its contents were incomplete, i.e. Section C. Committee to Fill Vacancies contained no names or place of residence; and

d. Candidate filed a nomination petition for City Controller for the City of Harrisburg for the 2013 Municipal Primary. (See Section 976(e) of the Election Code, 25 P.S. ยง2936(e).

Archive of the March 2013 filing.

Karen Balaban, attorney for Harrisburg city resident Paul Thompson filed a "Petition to set aside Nomination Petition" of Jennifer Smallwood Tuesday in the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas.

The court filing claims " At the time Candidate signed and completed each Candidate's Affidavit, Candidate did not consent to be a candidate for the office of City Controller. At the time the Notary Public attached her jurat to each Candidate's Affidavit , the "title of office" was identified as "School Board".

Read the court filing. "Petition to set aside Nomination Petition" of Jennifer Smallwood.

Archive video of Smallwood as a member of the Harrisburg Authority calling out members of Harrisburg City Council. " The time for political grandstanding is over."

Archive video of Smallwood as a member of the Harrisburg Board of Control as she votes to fire Gerald Kohn. Mayor Thompson's appointees to the Board of Control vote to terminate the contract of Gerald Kohn Kohn.

This is a developing story, stay tuned as we provide updates throughout the day.

Last updated on 12:07 PM August 9, 2013.

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