Tim Asher, Executive Director of the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative has fought the long and hard battle against petition blockers and has chosen not to submit his signatures to the Secretary of State.

He collected 170,000 signatures in 113 days, he brought in a daily average of 1,500 signatures. Very impressive!

He had enough signatures to certify his petition but under scrutiny and legal challenges by ACORN, BAMN, and Jobs for Justice, Asher would have cut it close.

The picture on the left shows ACORN’s incident report form, which would have been submitted by blockers to challenge circulators signatures.

With all of this said, Asher is not disillusioned and has pledged to return in 2010.

The Civil Rights Initiative now heads to Nebraska and Arizona.

We wish them the best of luck and will continue to track down their blockers.