The F.C.C. plans to rule on their petitions later this year.
Unless Filner quits, volunteers are going to start circulating recall petitions next week.
Asked how many candidates enlisted him to fine-tune their petitions this summer, he counts them on his fingers.
Of the petitions this year, 37,900 were filed against the county, 3,400 against villages and 32 against Glen Cove and Long Beach.
The petitions and determinations, many of them final and then not-so-final, lasted 27 years, until the Interior Department denied both petitions this month.
More than 350 people turned in nominating petitions last month to run in the Feb. 22 election for the 50 City Council seats.
The state itself also paid about $650,000 for extra workers to handle checking out more than 900,000 names on recall petitions this year.
He also has experience challenging petitions; last year, a campaign he managed found that a Republican state senator had included a dead woman on a list of signatures.
Among the figures they cited: The district approved about 9 in 10 charter petitions two years ago, compared with under half this year.
When the FDA rejected the petitions last year, the agency said they were continuing instead with their non-binding guidance strategy.
