Posted on 02/28/2021 5:44:01 PM PST by george76
Recall petition is on pace to get at least 2 million signatures by mid-March deadline..
On Friday, the campaign to recall Governor Gavin Newsom closed in on 1.9 million signatures, coming closer to meeting the 2 million signature goal.
While state law only requires 1.495 million valid signatures, campaigners have pushed for the 2 million signature goal to allow for up to 25% of signatures to be invalid and still reach the ballot. While the California Secretary of State’s office has revealed that 84% of all signatures processed so far have been valid, the California Patriot Coalition/Recall Gavin Newsom 2020, the campaigners behind the petition, don’t want to leave anything to chance.
As of Thursday, the campaign has recorded 1.825 million signatures so far, a jump of well over 100,000 signatures in only a week. While the figure had slowed down from the previous weeks total of close to 200,000 signatures, it is still well on pace to reach 2 million signatures by the March 10th deadline. The campaign actually has an extra week, as the 10th is a self-imposed deadline from the state signature deadline of March 17th, ensuring more reserve time for signature collection if needed.
“It’s not about if it will go through, but when it will go through, and it will go through,” noted Senior Advisor and Official Spokesman of the California Patriot Coalition – Recall Gavin Newsom 2020 Committee Randy Economy on Thursday. “The heavy lifting is continuing and we think there will be a special election later this year.”
Since November, Governor Newsom has embroiled himself in a series of actions that have alienated him from many Californians. A botched vaccine rollout, his controversial school reopening plan, the ongoing $31 billion EDD fraud case, and fallout from lockdowns and tsunami of small business closures due to his ordered lockdowns has kept voter resentment high.
His personal lapses, particularly with regard to COVID-19 regulations, have brought grief to the Governor. Most notably, he was found to have lied about attending a non-social distanced and non-mask party at an elite restaurant in November, despite him chastising Californians only days before for not following state guidelines.
While Newsom has largely played off recall concerns and said he was more focused on state matters, evidence has been building that the recall is a much more serious threat to him than he is letting on. A recent UC Berkeley survey found that only 45% of voters approve of Newsom, a sharp drop from September where 64% of voters approved of him. In the same survey, over a third of all voters also noted that they would vote for his removal from office, almost doubling the amount in favor in only a few short months.
A likely recall election in 2021..
Many high ranking lawmakers, including President Joe Biden, have come to his defense in recent days as the recall effort against him grows, with recent actions, such as traveling around the state for over two weeks, being chalked up by opponents as a goodwill tour. His signing of a bill earlier this week that extends the law making it mandatory for counties to send out by-mail ballots to all registered voters through the end of 2021 has also been cited by many as Newsom attempting to stave off the recall.
“It’s pretty pathetic if you sit and look about how he’s tried to get out of the situation that he’s created by doing these mega events,” added Economy on Thursday in a statement. “Everything Gavin Newsom does is under a microscope times a thousand, and that’s the way it should be. We’re gonna let the Secretary of State do her job, and we’re going to let the process continue. But we are going to stay on top of them every step of the way to make sure nothing goes awry, to make sure the checks and balances and accountability is taking place.”
All collected signatures are due to the Secretary of State by March 17th. All signatures are to be counted by April 30th. Should enough be validated, a recall election could be on the ballot as soon as early summer.
Recall the narcissistic, adulterous bastard and SOB.
He have the votes mailed in an the initiative will lose in a landslide.
The Dominion won’t let him lose.
Gruesome Newsom will be replaced by Gruesome Newsom 2.0.
Something tells me Newsom will beat it. Ballot harvesting. It’s legal so he won’t need to cheat. Trump has to step in and have the Republicans decide on one candidate. Grenell is the flash, Falconer has the resume and Cox(the last loser) is no good. Then there’s a hispanic looker senator. Get it right.
Great help you are.
Prediction: 2 million signatures. 30% deemed invalid. No recall.
Which, in Kalifornia, actually means 20 million.
It’s easy to make predictions without consequences for being wrong.
Care to up the ante?
I hope Newsom and the dems aren’t requiring signature validation, that would be petition-signer suppression.
Fungi=we need to use our heads. It’sdoable. help out if you can. i signed and got 5 signatures.
Grinnell said tonight in an interview they do not have enough verified signatures yet.
Ballot harvesting is legalized cheating, or it makes one form of cheating almost impossible to discover or prosecute.
Remember, please that signatures are much better scrutinized for petitions than for silly little matters like voting for President./s
Example: In the Michigan recall petitions the addresses for signers in Ann Arbor, MI 48104 or 48103 were rejected if the residents used the common popular local abbreviation “AA” or “A- 2” (upper case 2,which means A squared for the A of Ann and Arbor). Hundreds were tossed out for that. Similar in other places such as Sag for Saginaw.
Yes. Please see my post #14. Easy to toss these for trivial reasons. But to vote as an illegal or under three variations of a name in somebody else's old apartment? Go right ahead.
Hurrah!
My former county in California offered to send me a California ballot to my address in Illinois. Will they allow me to sign this recall petition?
The recall election is as good as a done deal. However it will not be so easy to get 50% in favor in this heavily Dem state. The state has swung even more to the left since the last successful recall in 2002 that brought us the Governator.
Mark my words: it will turn on school closures. If the schools do not reopen soon, Gavin is toast. The unions are the kingmakers here.
Straight up racism
You were wrong about who would be inaugurated, and yet you’re still here. Take your hypocritical self and shove it.
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