Posted on 11/14/2013 8:17:19 PM PST by publius321
"...Please Arizona, Quit Working Against Us. You can do Better than this. John McCain is serving a six year term that doesn’t end until 2016. His career in which he has earned the title of “maverick” was built by betraying the fundamental principles upon which the Republican Party was founded and his name adjoins legislation sponsored and co-authored by the most odious of leftist Democrat legislators.
John McCain has earned the right to retire as a recalled US Senator. Not all states enable their voters to do this but ... continued (couldn't post all material here due to charts, video and my lack of html knowledge)
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john mccain has earned the right to some of my thorazine
SHUT UP OBIWAN!
McCain spent way too long at the Hanoi Hilton. A darn shame, of course, but he was never the same after that.
Oh please, just tell me where to send some money to make this happen!
You can add McCain to the ranks of Christie. They will NEVER get my vote...even if it means a Dem gets elected. It’s past time to try to elect the lesser of two evils..... I am done with the R’s.....
There is no provision in the U.S. Constitution for the recall of a U.S. Senator or a Congressman.
Waste of time.
He was too hot before that either.
There is no provision in the U.S. Constitution for the recall of a U.S. Senator or a Congressman.
Waste of time.
if McCain signed a pledge to honor a recall then its not a waste of time...
He wasn't too hot before that either.
It is Arizona law, linked in the blog. It specifies -all- elected officials and states “including state wide office. That’s the beauty of federalism.
Point to where you get your esoteric knowledge please. You make a claim that appears false and give no supporting evidence.
McCain doesn't hold a statewide office. He holds a federal office.
I haven't read the supporting article, but I doubt the recall of a sitting U.S. Senator is legal in any state. They can, however, be impeached. That's in the Constitution.
Great step forward for the Republic.
Article 8 of the Arizona State Constitution:
“Text of Section 1:
Officers Subject to Recall; Petitioners
Every public officer in the state of Arizona, holding an elective office, either by election or appointment, is subject to recall from such office by the qualified electors of the electoral district from which candidates are elected to such office. Such electoral district may include the whole state. Such number of said electors as shall equal twentyfive per centum of the number of votes cast at the last preceding general election for all of the candidates for the office held by such officer, may by petition, which shall be known as a recall petition, demand his recall.”
Article 8 of the Arizona State Constitution:
Text of Section 1:
Officers Subject to Recall; Petitioners
Every public officer in the state of Arizona, holding an elective office, either by election or appointment, is subject to recall from such office by the qualified electors of the electoral district from which candidates are elected to such office. Such electoral district may include the whole state. Such number of said electors as shall equal twentyfive per centum of the number of votes cast at the last preceding general election for all of the candidates for the office held by such officer, may by petition, which shall be known as a recall petition, demand his recall.
Sounds like a court battle between the Arizona state Constitution and the U.S. Constitution could be in the offing. There’s obviously a conflict between the two, in this regard.
He did sign a pledge to honor a recall. It is a total waste of time. It was tried once, and failed, and it would fail again. Here is why.
No one who is electable will run against him, they all remember McCain's 15 million dollar smear campaign against J.D. Hayworth in 2010.
McCain controls the Arizona Republican party, he has operatives spread through the party at all levels.
Far too many no information voters in Az. have the battered wife syndrome, they will vote for McCain no matter what.
Then there is the "but he is a war hero" crowd who would follow McCain over a cliff.
I understand these things from many years inside the Airzona Republican Party.
Maybe Mark Levin is concidering an amendment to repeal the 17th Amendment. If so, suggest to Levin that he includes a provision in that amendment which allows state lawmakers to recall federal senators.
In the meanwhile, Arizona voters disgruntled with McCain should petition McCain to resign.
Before Vietnam, you mean?
From the Internet: McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy, graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. In October 1967, while on a bombing mission over Hanoi, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. McCain experienced episodes of torture, and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer. His war wounds left him with lifelong physical limitations.
Reads like a hero before Vietnam...all his life, in fact.
That would be an interesting battle. I suspect that if the state with a recall provision in its constitution allowing recall of its elected officials by voters of that state actually pursued the issue to the USSC, we might secure another way to removing people like McCain, Menendez, et al once they start acting against the people who put them in office.
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