Failure of the blank-ballot campaign was the biggest surprise of the election.
He persuaded fellow shareholders to approve his ballot campaign to break up the steel and ball bearing manufacturer.
It claimed donations it received were not contributions to the ballot campaign so they did not have to be disclosed.
All the while, he has been trying to recruit high-profile figures – although he won't say who – for the Bite the Ballot campaign.
Assemblyman John Ravitz, the Manhattan Republican Party chairman, said the Republicans had undertaken an "aggressive absentee ballot campaign, which is something we always do".
The '91 contest over a referendum similar to Gardner's was, at the time, the most expensive ballot campaign in the state's history.
The ballot campaign pitted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and a host of celebrities and Silicon Valley venture capitalists against the actor Mel Gibson and the Roman Catholic Church.
The house call was part of an aggressive absentee-ballot campaign by Democrats in 2002 to win the governor's race for the first time in two decades.
REUTERS The Lesson From the Coup at Timken | Ralph Whitworth persuaded fellow shareholders to approve his ballot campaign to break up the steel and ball bearing manufacturer Timken, Jeffrey Goldfarb of Reuters Breakingviews writes.
Here in Massachusetts, the Coalition for Health Care, which is running the ballot campaign, is already opposed by the Committee for Affordable Health Care Choices, which unites business associations, managed care organizations and other insurers.
