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It is a full plate. Short story, the local fishwrap, 2 months after being scooped by an online journalist and just after being re-scooped by a local magazine on the massive platinum parachutes the county board voted itself, Boss Hogg (FU Thomas Ament) and his cronies (which happened immediately after the November 2000 elections), finally caught onto the story. The local seasoned citizens rightly got outraged over the potential $2.3 million payday that FU Ament was looking at if he survived to 2008 (the current term plus 1), and started a recall. The local midday talker (owned by the same company as the fishrag, but rather conservative) really leapt on board, with the editorial board of the fishrag waking up long enough to see what's coming.

In short, while we needed just under 73,000 signatures in 2 months, we got 182,000 in just under a month. After an aborted attempt to get the entire process thrown out (aborted when the local Elections Commission accepted the petitions and rejected the FU Ament plan to lose them in the county bureacracy "copying" them), FU finally saw the light and resigned just in time for a special election primary to be held with the general election (side note; the RATs, who didn't plan, want to delay this and cost us taxpayers another $250,000, which they call "a little bit of money" (yes, that is a direct quote)).

The next step is the 20 supervisors who snuck this in while everyone was focused on Florida. 2 of them already have enough signatures collected to force a recall election (if they're validated), and the effort against my "supervisor", which just got started last week, is already better than 25% there.