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By Admin, February 12, 2010 12:43 pm

~ Cross posted from Michigan Taxes ~

Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow may be doing that.. They should be.

New Jersey is one of the eighteen states that have specific provisions within their constitutions that allow for the recall of their respective US Senators.

Article I Section 2b of the New Jersey Constitution reads as follows:

The people reserve unto themselves the power to recall, after at least one year of service, any elected official in this State or representing this State in the United States Congress. The Legislature shall enact laws to provide for such recall elections.

There are some who are going to attempt to remove Senator Bob Menendez… And they are dead serious.

The 18 states allowing for recall of senators are as follows: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin.

Michigan is one of them.

There are critics who cite a supreme court decision as a blockade to such an action. The committee to recall Menendez points out:

Times editorial mentioned “a 1995 U.S. Supreme Court opinion written by Justice John Paul Stevens” that said that the recall statute “couldn’t be applied to federal officeholders.” What opinion that might be was far from clear. The case of US Term Limits v. Thornton said that no State may “alter or add to the qualifications” for Congressional office–but said nothing materially about interrupting the term of office of a Member of Congress. Though no State has yet recalled a Senator, the Constitution is in fact silent on the issue, and no provision in it says that a Senator is anything other than an agent for the State that sends him.

An interesting series.. worth the read.

I have commented on the Michigan constitutional provision that allows recall before. I have further wondered what the language should be to make it as clear to the recall voter how utterly incompetent Michigan’s two sitting US Senators are.

Perhaps “For failure to understand the United States Constitution, and enacting laws which run contrary to it, and against the best interests of the citizens of Michigan and the Nation..”

Yeah.. Something like that.

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By Admin, January 28, 2010 12:39 pm

Dr. Lee has done a bit of recall work in Grosse Pointe Shores Michigan:

They are targeting Mayor Dr. James Cooper, and councilman and mayor Pro Tem Dr. Brian Hunt; and council members Victoria Boyce, Robert Graziani and Frederick Minturn.

An uncertified tally of signatures provided by an elections office employee showed Boyce, Graziani and Minturn receiving more signatures than votes in the February election.

News of the filing came toward the end of the Grosse Pointe Shores city council meeting Tuesday night, after the Grosse Pointe News print deadline.

Now then..  Water the ponies, there is a little more work to be done. Good luck on the certification Dr. Lee.

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By Admin, December 24, 2009 6:29 pm

Right now.

This Christmas Eve gift to themselves  needs to make as many of the senators who voted for it unemployed ASAP.

If you think it stops here, think again.

Register an account NOW. I will be in contact directly.  Join a Posse in your area to get the apropriate signatures and remove them from office.

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By Admin,

The 18 states allowing for recall of senators are as follows: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin.

Create an account and sign in here if you would like to drum up the posse for your state.   We can begin or organizing efforts.

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By Admin,

Both of them need to go.

Michigan Election LAW

168.951 Officers subject to recall; time for filing recall petition; performance of duties until result of recall election certified.

Sec. 951.

Every elective officer in the state, except a judicial officer, is subject to recall by the voters of the electoral district in which the officer is elected as provided in this chapter. A petition shall not be filed against an officer until the officer has actually performed the duties of the office to which elected for a period of 6 months during the current term of that office. A petition shall not be filed against an officer during the last 6 months of the officer’s term of office. An officer sought to be recalled shall continue to perform duties of the office until the result of the recall election is certified.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955 ;– Am. 1978, Act 533, Imd. Eff. Dec. 21, 1978 ;– Am. 1993, Act 45, Imd. Eff. May 27, 1993
Popular Name: Election Code

We need to develop language as well.  Please feel free to suggest.

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By Admin, December 21, 2009 9:26 pm

I am going to start collecting volunteers to work districts in an effort to remove these two from office.

There are 18 states which allow recalls of their US Senators.  Michigan is one of them.  Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin are the others.

They have failed to uphold their oaths as our Senators in voting for this preposterous “Health care” law which merely amounts to new taxation.

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

That is the oath.. have they lived up to it?

Saddle up Posse..  we have a hunt.

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By Admin, October 25, 2009 3:33 pm

Its sometimes quiet around here, but we are very active otherwise in various protests and educational activies.

Become a member.  This will allow you to post your recall efforts, and communicate with others in your areas who want the “bums thrown out..”

Looking forward to hearing from you.

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By Admin, September 14, 2009 3:01 pm

I will keep you posted, but based on the outcome of her support for Cap & Trade, and The Health care PUBLIC Options, there are nearly 20 regional  leaders ready to begin collecting signatures for Senator Debbie Stabenow’s removal.

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By Admin, July 22, 2009 7:31 pm

It had to happen.  But soon after a recall effort failed, it seems the city of Akron’s mayor decided he would find a way to stop the effort from happening again. According to Cleveland.com

City Council will decide on Monday whether a charter amendment raising the petition threshold for recall elections should be placed before voters in November.

The amendment would require 20 percent of the city’s registered voters to sign petitions to trigger a recall vote. The city charter now demands that recall petitions have signatures equal to 20 percent of the turnout in the last election for the targeted office.

20% of the city’s REGISTERED voters..

To change from the 20% of the last vote turnout is a big deal.  Ignoring up front the dead voters who are registered yet, and not purged, it should be noted that in the nations percentage turnout in the last PRESIDENTIAL election was a mere 56.8% of its “eligible” voters.  Ohio by some estimates put its best state turnout numbers at 59%..   Which alters significantly the number of voter signatures for the recall effort.

But that doesn’t really mean ANYTHING, when the Mayoral race can be off season..  Apparently the difference THIS TIME it made would have amounted to much more:

To meet that higher standard, the group that led last month’s unsuccessful recall attempt against Mayor Don Plusquellic would have needed 24,439 signatures — rather than the 3,179 required by the charter.

Nearly eight times as much work to simply get it on the ballot.

This amounts to a serious amount of CYA, in a time when voters are going to paying particularly close attention to the actions of elected officials.  Perhaps with a threshold that is so skewed as to prevent the efforts overall, it will be much easier to ignore the representation the voters demand.

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By Admin, July 14, 2009 3:31 pm

Confirmation hearings for supreme court justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor continue..

The Republican Senate reminds us how much change is coming perhaps?

Judge Sotomayor’s Opinions Were Reversed, Vacated, Or Criticized Nine Out Of Ten Times By The U.S. Supreme Court

She is an offhand reject of the court already..  I’ll bet a couple of whoopee cushions wind up under a conservative butt or two if she gets to occupy this open seat.

Malkin is following the hearings as well..

And Sotomayor will be one cleared hurdle closer to overcoming yet another set of “incredible odds” to complete her “compelling personal story.”

Yeah.. compelling..  But of course even us average joes might have a compelling story or two.  But it seems the odds are in favor of a new flavor.  Certainly we couldnt have a justice appointed on the basis of respect for law, or even the constiitution, but rather one gets appointed to “color” for the purpose of “coloring” more fully one of the more important positions in the land.

So much for the blind eye of justice.

Which senators need  a spanking?