Posted on 05/08/2009 9:40:39 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
An effort to recall Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger moved ahead Thursday when Secretary of State Debra Bowen certified an organizer's recall petition.
The campaign to unseat the governor is being waged by Edwin Snell, a San Bernardino County resident who runs a political action committee called Recalls California.
The recall petition claims Schwarzenegger "no longer represent(s) the interest of the people and has betrayed the trust of the voters."
Proponents of the recall drive now have 160 days to gather signatures of 12 percent of the state's 8,679,416 registered voters, with a final filing date of Oct. 14.
Once the signatures are certified — a process that could take until Feb. 5 — a date for a recall election would have to be set, but could be conducted within 180 days of the certification date, according to Bowen's office.
(Excerpt) Read more at contracostatimes.com ...
Whether or not the recall petition succeeds, it is not too soon to start reminding the public that it was Jerry Brown who gave us public employee unions that are the source of much of our fiscal mess today.
But "Tom and Jerry" was so very cool... sob!
Oh well.
Even without a recall, the future looks grim.
Who do we have to run against Jerry but a bunch of liberals(R)?
The guy just disappeared. He's handsome, articulate, conservative, and quick on his feet. I just don't get it.
One step at a time my FRiend.
This is a perfect example as to why actors should act unless they are educated beyond what their publicist tells them to say.
But Arnie is so moderate...! I thought that was the sure ticket to Rino fame! Even Meghan loves him!!!!
I think it is democrats working it out. But it is always good to reconfirm that Democrats hate Republicans whether they are Rinos or not.
I’m not sure, actually. He occasionally writes at FlashReport and some of those articles have been posted here. Until I looked, I thought he had been elected to the State Board of Equalization in 2006. After googling, I see he lost that race by a small margin to Michelle Steele.
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Frantzie you have done nothing since you joined FR last October but do your best to stir hate and discontent against every single current Republican in office...
FR is not partisan. It matters not whether Republican or Democrat. If they're liberal, they deserve defeat. If the California Republican Party condones or promotes liberalism then it is not much benefit to either conservatives or this state.
It looks like liberalism is what Frantzie objects to, no matter the party label.
The posting history does not support your contention, IMO.
I think Frantzie is capable of speaking for him or her self, and yes it does... I don’t like McCain but I am sick of his constant rants about him, just as I would not presume to get in the middle of another California recall I am sick of people who live in Florida (for example) telling Arizona who we should or should not elect when they have their own pathetic representatives.
I did not intend to aver that FreeRepublic is a GOP forum.
The point is that this guy is focusing only on Republicans, that was the genesis of my comment regarding self-inflicted wounds in the GOP. The fact that he doesn’t target Dems makes me cautious, and his affiliation with the ‘Pickens Plan’ makes me skeptical.
The likely end result of a recall of Gov Schwarzenegger would be to turn over the state to a Democrat who could then run as an incumbent in the 2010 general election. I see this as an all around bad idea. I simply ask people to be wary of those whom they choose to associate themselves politically. The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend.
When I see what I consider an unfair representation, I usually say something. I browsed two pages of posting history and found Frantzie to be critical of RINOs and Democrats (hussein, sharpton, and others). Apparently you don’t agree with some of that criticism — fine. Many of us don’t agree on lots of things.
But seeing as this is a conservative site, I don’t see any problem with criticizing folks who don’t act like conservatives.
Anti-McCain posts are legend in these here parts for exactly that reason. What is said today is mild compared to what was said in 2000. Before taking the nomination, 95% of FReepers did not support McCain. You expect them to change now?
I think it's time for people to start tending to the government close to home and in their own states. Hildy and I happen to have a conservative representative for our district here in AZ and speaking for myself, will vote for McCain unless something dramatic changes, but encouraging some guy in Florida to ask Arpaio to run for his seat only ticks a lot of us over here off... since most of you are clueless about Arpaio and whether we even WANT him to run for the senate in Arizona.
That dork ran AGAINST the car tax — and now he wants it INCREASED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fire the bum
"Frantzie you have done nothing since you joined FR last October but do your best to stir hate and discontent against every single current Republican in office..."FR postings are not limited by State. If they were, we wouldn't have had hordes of FReepers from NY, AZ, PA, and elsewhere pushing for the disastrous Schwarzenegger, some of whom still come on California threads and try to defend him today. So, I do understand your frustration. But, I also appreciate those who fight to end the leftward slide of the Republican Party that is being pushed even further to the left by John McCain who, since winning the nomination, sees himself as head of the national GOP party. The man has been a thorn in the side of too many to think that the AZ Senate race will be left only to the influence of those in AZ. That's politics.
Remeber back when the left-wing judges had to be ordered to “stand down” their on their rulings against the Gray Davis Recall?!
Bet they have no trouble being silent when a GOP governor faces the same thing this time around...
Fighting the enemy with a fifth column in your midst is an exercise in futility. First police your own house and then wage a political war.
The Austrian is an excellent example. He single handedly perverted a political process purposely designed to provide due process protection to the minority. Had Schwarzenegger exercised his veto power, Republicans could have substantially reduced the spending spree. Instead, the Austrian allied himself with liberal Democrats and actively worked to exclude all but a handful of pragmatic (unprincipled) Republicans from the governing process.
Recent, Big Five, closed door negotiations included 3 liberals (the executive and the two majority leaders, and the two, partisan minority leaders). There was no middle. 3 were well left of center and the two Republicans didn't care as long as they remained in office. Both of these unprincipled partisan have now been forced from their leadership positions, will soon be unemployed and did great harm to their political party and this state's General Fund.
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