2/21/2012 4:36:30 PM
Jim Jenkins Will Not Run for U.S. Senate

Jim Jenkins of Callaway has announced that he will not seek an independent bid for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Ben Nelson. Jenkins initially thought he could not run because he changed his voter registration after January 1st of this year, which according to a new law passed by the state legislature prevented him from running as a candidate by petition. However, it was determined that he could run by creating a new party which would require 4,700 signatures of registered voters, spread between the three congressional districts and submitted to the Secretary of State's office by August 1st. Jenkins predicts that the two political parties will continue to lose favor among voters, especially young people, as they remain locked in rigid ideological positions. He states "The only hope to solve the massive problems facing our country is to work together, which will require that everyone place their sacred cows onto the negotiating table". In the future, Jenkins plans to enter another political race as an independent.