Total Recall? GOP quartet seeks to oust Pritzker, insisting ‘it’s going to be difficult’ but not ‘impossible’

The Chicago Sun-TImes ^ | May 26, 2020 | Neal Earley

[PBRCat]

Suburban Republican Allen Skillicorn insists he would really rather Gov. J.B. Pritzker finish out his term than be booted from office.

“Frankly I just hope the governor fixes the unemployment system, so people can get their unemployment and we should move on from this,” the state representative said. “I mean, I would much prefer that.”

Whether the governor is able to solve the unemployment problems that have arisen during the coronavirus crisis remains to be seen, but Skillicorn isn’t waiting to find out.

The East Dundee Republican launched a recall effort to remove the Chicago Democrat from office — an uphill battle that would require bipartisan support from legislators and hundreds of thousands of signatures from voters to get on the ballot.

The Illinois Constitution requires 20 members of the Illinois House of Representatives and 10 state senators to sign an affidavit calling for the governor to be recalled, with no more than half coming from one political party. In other words, at least 15 Democratic lawmakers would need to sign on.

Additionally, Skillicorn must collect enough signatures to equal 15% of the votes cast in the last election. And he must collect them within 150 days of the affidavit being filed with the Illinois State Board of Election. That means collecting about 636,000 signatures in five months.

And all that only gets the recall question on the November ballot.

While Skillicorn said he thinks Illinoisans will be able to pressure their Democratic representatives into signing the affidavit, Halbrook admitted getting his Democratic colleagues in the General Assembly to join the effort to recall a Democratic governor will be “difficult.”

[PBRCat]

This being Illinois, citizens have to seek legislative permission to recall a governor.

[FreedomPoster]

As I point out when recall is discussed anywhere, recall laws are written to make recall theoretically possible, but practically impossible. Convince me otherwise.

You’re better off working on the next election.

[Theodore R.]

People in IL will never give up on liberalism. They are convinced there’s a federal program out there tailored made for them.

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile, get a load of this...

Illinois Dems Bank on a Congressional Bailout State budget relies on billions in federal assistance

[slapshot]

to top it off the character of Illinois RINOS- no elected Combine RINO will want to give up the crumbs Democrat Speaker Madigan sweeps off the table in their direction

[Flick Lives]

The bill also gives Pritzker the authority to borrow up to $5 billion from the Federal Reserve as part of a program backstopped by Congress.

Aw, hell no! It's not bad enough these pigs have destroyed their own states financially, they now intend to chow down at the Federal trough.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

It’s the damn Chicago metro area. Downstate residents need to petition Congress NOW and demand the creation of their own state. They have zero say in their state government.

[mewzilla]

I’d agree to bailouts under two conditions: that the governor and states legislature of each state resign en masse immediately as a pre-condition, and that an agreement is signed to allow statehood for any counties that want to form new states. In NYS’s case, for example, that means Upstatehood.