La. Woman Files Governor Recall Petition

Yahoo! News ^ | 1/10/06 | AP

[libertarianPA]

BATON ROUGE, La. - A Republican who says she has never worked on a political campaign filed documents Tuesday launching a drive to oust Gov. Kathleen Blanco, who was harshly criticized for her response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Kat Landry, who filed a recall petition with state elections officials, said Louisiana needs new leadership to recover from the storms' back-to-back blows.

"What we have seen in the past few months is a lack of leadership, a lack of communication, a lack of understanding of how to get things done," Landry said.

In Louisiana, getting a recall on the ballot requires petition signatures from at least one-third of the state's registered voters, or about 900,000 people, in 180 days, according to Jennifer Marusak of the secretary of state's office.

The 180-day period for gathering signatures began Tuesday, when the petition was filed, Marusak said.

If the proper signatures are gathered, a majority of voters in a recall election would have to vote to get rid of Blanco, a Democrat, before she would be forced out of office.

Blanco was out of the country Tuesday, studying flood-control measures in Holland, and unavailable to comment. A spokesman of hers would not comment on the petition.

Landry said she's received a tremendous amount of traffic on a recall Web site she set up, and noted 676,000 people voted against Blanco for governor in the first place. Blanco was elected in 2003 with 52 percent of the vote; the number cited by Landry was the total who voted for her opponent, Bobby Jindal.

A call to the state Republican Party for comment on whether it was involved in the petition drive was not immediately returned.

[libertarianPA]

YOU GO GIRL!!!

[Buck W.]

"...Gov. Kathleen Blanco, who was harshly criticized for her response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita. "

She was? All I ever heard was that it was Bush's fault.

[jdm]

Nagin and Blanco both should be booted out.

[Clintonfatigued]

This could become an example of grass-roots activism at its best.

[rawcatslyentist]

Here are some working links!!

http://www.recallgovernorblanco.com/

http://impeachblanco.org/

Kill A Commie For Mommie
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[Flux Capacitor]

RECALL KATHLEEN BLANCO

[mmercier]

With the rat parties welfare population in NO dispersed to the four corners of the Republic she may well have a good shot at success.

The federals will eventually need to intervene and grant lifetime absentee voting privileges from various housing projects throughout the republic if they want to keep Louisiana a rat state. I am sure HUD has been working on this by now.

[Political Junkie Too]

Leave the office, the marble stays.

-PJ

[Flux Capacitor]

*PING*

[fieldmarshaldj]

If this succeeds, Mitch LANDRIEU becomes Governor. That's enough insurance to keep Blanco in office.

[Flux Capacitor]

Better him than KKKathleen. I've been dreaming of the day that bitch goes.

-Dan

[Prime Choice]

Hm. Between the two, I'd rather see Blanco impeached than recalled. Her offenses, and those of Mayor Nagin, show reckless and depraved dereliction of their sworn oath of office...which is an impeachable offense.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Very BAD idea *ping*

[Prime Choice]

If this succeeds, Mitch LANDRIEU becomes Governor.

Why is that? When Gray Davis was recalled here in California, Cruz Bustamante was not his automatic successor.

[Flux Capacitor]

Impeachment is impossible with La.'s two-thirds Democratic legislature. No, recall is the way to go.

-Dan

[fieldmarshaldj]

Giving the Landrieu family control of the Executive and a Senate seat at the same time is a BAD idea. Mitch Landrieu will love this... have the Republicans do all the work to install him in the Governorship without lifting a finger. He gets in there, and we won't be able to have a Republican Governor until 2016.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Unless someone can correct me on this (Torie, do you know ?), I understand that the Lieutenant-Governor of LA would then succeed the sitting Governor. If the situation is like California where candidates compete, I will remove my objections to the recall.

[Flux Capacitor]

That's a chance I'm willing to take, especially considering that the Landrieu family likely won't have that Senate seat much longer. Raymond Blanco, the guy who's actually running the state right now, is a truly EVIL man and if he and his dingbat wife can be gotten rid of before '07 it will only help Louisiana. I urge all Louisiana Freepers to get their names to this petition.

-Dan

[Calpernia]

See, this is the type of citizen action we need. We don't have officials that will do what is right, so if we don't clean house, there won't be a country to come and bail us out.

[Calpernia]

bttt