Posted on 06/18/2013 4:56:00 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
What kinda language?
Arabic?
In the Morse recall drive 16,198 signatures were turned in and of those 6,061 were rejected for a variety of issues including signers not living in the district or not being a registered voter.
Sure looks like the dirty tricks squad was being super-active. It’s a good thing they were able to get the right number of valid signatures after all.
They do not fight fair. Actually, in many cases they are too stooopid to fight fair. Take Diana DeGette, that frickin’ wench thinks magazines are thrown away after all the bullets are fired. And she is making laws. That is not fair. How do you abuse a person like DeGette without being called a sexist or worse.
The Secretary of State’s review is very picky. A lot of people don’t know what Senate district they live in or if their registration has lapsed, so you will always get invalid signatures. On the other hand, the review is so picky I doubt Morse’s challenge will stand.
Isn’t a replacement a given? Why would it have to be specified? Seems like a frivolous excuse.
It sounds frivolous to me. Even if they didn't have enough valid recall signatures, I believe, there is a clause in the law that allows the petition to continue for a specified period of time (I think it is two weeks). If the whole thing is invalidated, they can still start fresh, and this time people will be even more pissed off.
Cart before the horse. Morse hasn't been recalled yet.
Colo. Const. Art. XXI, Section 1 (2012)
Section 1. State officers may be recalled
Every elective public officer of the state of Colorado may be recalled from office at any time by the registered electors entitled to vote for a successor of such incumbent through the procedure and in the manner herein provided for, which procedure shall be known as the recall, and shall be in addition to and without excluding any other method of removal provided by law.
The procedure hereunder to effect the recall of an elective public officer shall be as follows:
A petition signed by registered electors entitled to vote for a successor of the incumbent sought to be recalled, equal in number to twenty-five percent of the entire vote cast at the last preceding election for all candidates for the position which the incumbent sought to be recalled occupies, demanding an election of the successor to the officer named in said petition, shall be filed in the office in which petitions for nominations to office held by the incumbent sought to be recalled are required to be filed; provided, if more than one person is required by law to be elected to fill the office of which the person sought to be recalled is an incumbent, then the said petition shall be signed by registered electors entitled to vote for a successor to the incumbent sought to be recalled equal in number to twenty-five percent of the entire vote cast at the last preceding general election for all candidates for the office, to which the incumbent sought to be recalled was elected as one of the officers thereof, said entire vote being divided by the number of all officers elected to such office, at the last preceding general election; and such petition shall contain a general statement, in not more than two hundred words, of the ground or grounds on which such recall is sought, which statement is intended for the information of the registered electors, and the registered electors shall be the sole and exclusive judges of the legality, reasonableness and sufficiency of such ground or grounds assigned for such recall, and said ground or grounds shall not be open to review.
Section 2. Form of recall petition
Any recall petition may be circulated and signed in sections, provided each section shall contain a full and accurate copy of the title and text of the petition; and such recall petition shall be filed in the office in which petitions for nominations to office held by the incumbent sought to be recalled are required to be filed.
The signatures to such recall petition need not all be on one sheet of paper, but each signer must add to his signature the date of his signing said petition, and his place of residence, giving his street number, if any, should he reside in a town or city. The person circulating such sheet must make and subscribe an oath on said sheet that the signatures thereon are genuine, and a false oath, willfully so made and subscribed by such person, shall be perjury and be punished as such. All petitions shall be deemed and held to be sufficient if they appear to be signed by the requisite number of signers, and such signers shall be deemed and held to be registered electors, unless a protest in writing under oath shall be filed in the office in which such petition has been filed, by some registered elector, within fifteen days after such petition is filed, setting forth specifically the grounds of such protest, whereupon the officer with whom such petition is filed shall forthwith mail a copy of such protest to the person or persons named in such petition as representing the signers thereof, together with a notice fixing a time for hearing such protest not less than five nor more than ten days after such notice is mailed. All hearings shall be before the officer with whom such protest is filed, and all testimony shall be under oath. Such hearings shall be summary and not subject to delay, and must be concluded within thirty days after such petition is filed, and the result thereof shall be forthwith certified to the person or persons representing the signers of such petition. In case the petition is not sufficient it may be withdrawn by the person or a majority of the persons representing the signers of such petition, and may, within fifteen days thereafter, be amended and refiled as an original petition. The finding as to the sufficiency of any petition may be reviewed by any state court of general jurisdiction in the county in which such petition is filed, upon application of the person or a majority of the persons representing the signers of such petition, but such review shall be had and determined forthwith. The sufficiency, or the determination of the sufficiency, of the petition referred to in this section shall not be held, or construed, to refer to the ground or grounds assigned in such petition for the recall of the incumbent sought to be recalled from office thereby.
When such petition is sufficient, the officer with whom such recall petition was filed, shall forthwith submit said petition, together with a certificate of its sufficiency to the governor, who shall thereupon order and fix the date for holding the election not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days from the date of submission of said petition; provided, if a general election is to be held within ninety days after the date of submission of said petition, the recall election shall be held as part of said general election.
Suddenly “the will of the voters” doesn’t mean squat. Not that I’d expect them to understand the difference between making a principled argument and mouthing convenient platitudes. It just ain’t in ‘em.
The local news sites aren’t really covering this story.
So, I’m posting it all over their message boards.
Heh-heh!
Pound them! Either we fight with words today or we will have to use other much uglier methods tomorrow.
Throw the bum out!
I’m on it, FRiend.
Every.
Single.
Day.
(The benefits of being a hermit -with a great Wife that doesn’t mind)
And the rat runs to the court begging for cover. Which will only further infuriate his thinking non-parasite constituents. I just hope that there are enough of them.
I assume that's because this is a (D) being recalled?
A gun control loving (D).
Absolutely!
Three requirements for a Recall Petition, and the circulators omit one of them? It may be that there is more to the story, but that looks an elementary error.
Reap the wirlwind, eh?
In the Morse recall drive 16,198 signatures were turned in and of those 6,061 were rejected for a variety of issues including signers not living in the district or not being a registered voter.Interesting that when the Democrat has a vested interested, they can so quickly validate each person signing, but when it's not in their interest (i.e. during the election), they oppose even a simple ID check.
Bloomberg is going all in on this. MAIG money for lawyers, bribes, booze, hookers etc. Tossing the Senate president because of the gun grab will stick in hizzonors craw.
I need to buy more beer. This will get good.
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