JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — An independent candidate seeking to scramble Missouri’s hotly contested race to replace Republican Roy Blunt in the U.S. Senate said he collected more than 20,000 signatures to get his name on the Nov. 8 ballot.
With voters set to cast their ballots in the primary Tuesday, attorney John Wood spent Monday morning at the Secretary of State’s office formally submitting the paperwork and signatures he needed to make his bid official.
“Our first goal when we kicked off this campaign was to secure our place on the November ballot so Missourians who are sick and tired of the extremism in our politics would have a commonsense, independent choice to support in November,” Wood said.
