Posted on 04/26/2021 3:19:13 PM PDT by Yossarian
SACRAMENTO — Propelled by growing voter frustration over California’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a Republican-led drive to remove Gov. Gavin Newsom from office collected enough voter signatures to qualify for the ballot, state officials reported Monday, triggering for only the second time in the state’s history a rapid-fire campaign to decide whether to oust a sitting governor.
Recall backers submitted more than 1,495,709 verified voter signatures — equal to 12% of all ballots cast in the last gubernatorial election — meeting the minimum threshold to force a special recall election, according to a tally released by Secretary of State Shirley Weber. Barring intervention by the courts, Newsom will face a statewide vote of confidence by year’s end.
Though recent opinion polls showed that only 40% of California voters support recalling Newsom, an indication that the effort might fail, the success of the recall campaign in gathering enough valid signatures for a special election delivers a blow to Newsom as one of the nation’s most prominent and politically ambitious Democrats, who raised his national profile as a liberal foil to former President Trump.
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PS- 40 years in video game character years is approximately 80 in real-life human being years. :)
The Commie’s are busy making sure Dominion is programmed to reject a recall.
12%
They may elect a quasi-conservative RINO to replace him, but the next election after that, they will elect another leftist.
I can’t stand the smug Gavin Newsome as much as the rest of you. However, I’m glad my state does not have this idea of a recall in their constitution or laws. I’m against it on philosophical grounds. It’s democracy at its worst that our founders warned us against. It gives the ability of the people to get swept away by their passions of the moment. We need to get back to more republican principles of government like our founders intended.
The Cali state constitution has a republican remedy for this. One, he’s elected every 4 years and you can throw him out after that. Two if while in office the governors actions are so egregious, the Congress has the powers of impeachment.
Hey, State recall is local government in action. It doesn’t happen very often except when someone is especially egregious. It’s great to see the right of the people exercised against outlaws in government.
What, you’re in favor of outlaw Governors but not in favor of the people recalling them? In that sense, state recall is like federal impeachment.
“ QUIT BEING DEFEATIST! “
“O.K. You win. I’ll quit.
(I do love your about page “We’re Screwed 08, 12, 16, 20...” Banner, and don’t consider it at all defeatist ;)”
Hah, touche, lol.
“Michigan has a long history of organized labor Democrats.’
A lot of those former union Dems now hate the Dems’ guts. Many of the rank and file members are Trumpers, as Biden/Dems have stabbed them in the back in so many ways. The union leaders are still in the pocket of the Dems, but not Average Joe Lunchbuckets. They’re for Trump.
If the Dems stole the presidential election with relative ease, this will be a breeze. Newsome will NOT be removed from office.
So you think the people legally deposing a dictator is “mob rule”?
That’s sad. You should re-read the Declaration of Independent that explains the people have every right to throw off tyranny after a long line of abuses of the type Newsome engaged.
The Declaration of Independence endorses overthrow against the law of the ruling tyrant but in keeping with Natural Law. Here the overthrow of Dictator Newsome is legal, so you’re pretty far off the track there, my FRiend.
Actually, the feds have the constitutional right to step in when the executive branch of a state government begins to exercise totalitarian powers. But that won't happen will it, because the mostly unconstitutional federal government is itself basically totalitarian.
Meanwhile, the people of CA via the CA legislature in CA's the republican form of government deemed recall an appropriate option and made it CA law. So in that sense, a republican form of government is at work in the recall process, as well as overthrow of Newsome's gubernatorial dictatorship.
Your argument confuses state and local government with national government. The national government was created by the States via the U.S. Constitution. The understanding then, as it should be now, is that States are local government whereby the people have much easier and direct access to government and can exercise their will in a more direct way than in the national or "federal" government. Hence, many states have options like Propositions, Initiatives, and Recall that give the people direct access if the representatives and their politics are not so inclined. Nothing unconstitutional about any of that. The US Constitution is pointed mainly at the federal government which it created
Your Madison quote pertains to the proposed (at the time of writing the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers) National Constitutional Government, not to local government. They knew the proposed national government was a much more dangerous undertaking than the creation of a state or local government.
No need to get hostile there, OTH. Take a breather. It’s OK. We’re just kicking around ideas here.
As I said, IMO you’re confusing the understanding of local (state) government with the proposed national government at the time of the Federalist papers and the forming of Constitution. The Founders saw states as basically sovereign, only that they should have a republican form of government.
I have seen no evidence that the Founders were against local or state governments having means of direct public intervention in government. Certainly the Constitution does not forbid such.
I guess that means you’re against state Referendums, Initiatives, and Propositions as well. Well, you may have a good grasp of the original understanding, intent, and text of the Constitution, but I think you’re a bit off regarding local and state governance.
I didn't know Gary Sinise was even considering a run. He would have my vote! I would bet every Veteran in the state would vote for him.
so who do we want,
the porn star or the guy from the fruit loops cereal box?
i see that all three pronouns will be available
he,she and it
“ Would she be the first female gov of Kalifornica?”
I’m gonna laugh myself silly if the first ‘female’ governor of Commiefornia is a male :D
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