Posted on 11/04/2013 6:20:56 AM PST by jdsteel
Colorado did it successfully. I'm looking for someone that may have started a recall of Senator Casey in Pennsylvania. I can't imagine that there is not an effort to do so.
Are recalls allowed under Pennsylvania law?
While politicians can be recalled at the State level (the mechanism for doing so varies from state to state), I do not believe there is any mechanism for doing so to members of the US House or Senate. They can be removed by their fellow members of Congress, but not by a popular vote.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_from_the_United_States_Congress
I wasn’t aware Congresscritters could be recalled in any state. See The Liberty Amendments by Mark Levin
In Wisconsin, we kicked out a judge who signed the recall petition against Scott Walker — our Governor! And it’s just been made public that some upstart Dem who is challenging one of our incumbent Republican Legislators signed that recall petition with a phony address! Catherine Englbrecht’s True the Vote is a wonderful resource. The first candidate to bear voter backlash was FORMER Senator Russ Feingold who lost his seat partly because of his vote on obamacare.
I don’t think you can recall federal legislators.
but recalls are just bad policy in the first place. an electoral “mulligan” just gives the electorate a second chance to do what they should have done right to begin with.
why don’t people just pay the hell attention when they vote the first time?
At the risk of being slightly off topic, if your reps supported Obamacare email them and ask if they or any staff members will be exempt from the healthcare exchanges.
They will probably give a long winded legislative reply to obfuscate the issue and distract you, but they will know we are aware of their hypocrisy.
Unfortunately no recall procedure under Pennsylvania law. And even where there is, it is nearly impossible to recall a U.S. Senator. Idaho tried to recall Sen. Frank Church back in the early 1970s. You can do a Google search to see how that turned out.
My general suggestion is for someone with a bit of graphics capability...to design a simple 2-picture graphic. One shot for the President, and one for your local Democratic-Representative.
Under this....I’d put the caption: “One said you could keep the healthcare you have and it’d all be cheaper, and the other said I don’t have time to read this...just vote for it”
Then at the bottom, a simple slogan for the 2014 election on all representative fronts....”Failed men deserve no vote”.
Keep it simple and just post it everywhere. All of these guys who voted without reading it...are guilty of something deceitful. They can’t be your Representative. If you got to vote Democrat....fine, fire the guy who did the vote, and find a new Democrat, or vote on Republican lines. These guys, including the Senators....need be part of the blame.
Federal officers — senators and congressmen — cannot be recalled. This has been litigated both in federal court (Idaho, 1967) and state court (New Jersey, 2013).
EXACTLY!We can start with all of the A$$H*LES with a”D”!!!
Not by us serfs. Serfs are only allowed to vote in the primaries if, and only if, they are registered in that specific party.
I was a registered Independent for many years, and was prohibited from voting in the primaries.
Serfs must surrender their women on their wedding night, to be deflowered by the senators, if the senator decides that he {or she} desires your spouse {it used to be wife, but today, it could be your pony}.
But I heard that after obamacare really kicks in, none of us will care about that as we will all be dead.
Federal elections follow federal laws written by federal politicians and... SURPRISE!... federal laws do not allow recall elections!
Who’da thunk it?
I knew I turned to the right place for answers, and now I know why I couldn’t find anything on the subject. Darn!
Recall of Federal offices is not Constitutionally permitted.
We should however be trying to recall as many libs, in every election cycle that we can, in every state that this is available!~
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