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To: Scott from the Left Coast

But people can run an initiative to change the current recall law followed by an immediate recall.

For otherwise you are saying that the will of the people is secondary to the determinations of its courts.

The fact is a majority of voters now want Rossi as their governor in Washington State.


276 posted on 12/22/2004 4:50:44 AM PST by Hostage
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To: Hostage
But people can run an initiative to change the current recall law followed by an immediate recall.

Actually, no the people cannot run an initiative to change this -- this is the State Constitution -- which requires a majority vote of both houses of the Legislature and then a vote of the people to change.

To make the Constitutional amendment and then run a recall gets you to 2006 at the very earliest (and that's only if you get the RATs in the Legislature to allow this to happen).

Why waste the huge effort? She'll be over half way through her term by then. You have to win here and now -- or you have to get the admitted long-shot of another vote approved by the Court or the legislature. Otherwise, we will be living with another RAT governor for at least four more years (which will make it 24 years and counting).

334 posted on 12/22/2004 8:42:14 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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