California’s Secretary of State granted the ‘Recall Gavin 2020’ campaign (recallgavin2020.com) an additional 120 days for signature gathering to force a special election. Californians already made recall history in October 2003 by removing Governor Gray Davis from office.
North Dakota citizens also removed Gov. Lynn Frazier in 1921 according to the Center on the American Governor at Rutgers University’s Eagleton Institute of Politics, but that is it, only 2 recalled governors in the nation’s history. However, gubernatorial recall attempts have been popular in California. Every governor elected since 1968, including Ronald Reagan, was targeted by recall attempts according to the center’s website.
Nineteen states permit recall elections for governors and other state officials, including Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin the center says. The District of Columbia also permits recall elections, and Virginia allows recall by trial.
Not only are successful recalls extremely rare but it would be history-making to have one state, California, remove two governors. The ‘Recall Gavin 2020’ effort now has until March 10, 2021 to submit 1,495,709 signatures of registered voters.
Recall leader Orrin Heatlie says that the campaign has verified more than 700,000 signatures and has 5,000 experienced volunteers circulating petitions. Not too bad considering the media censored coverage and a do-nothing Republican Party.
Usually petition drives pay people to obtain signatures. However, the Recall Gavin campaign uses all volunteers and no effort of this type has secured so many signatures.
The Recall campaign’s website provides petitions that can be printed, circulated and mailed to Recall headquarters. An instructional video on the site explains the steps to properly obtain signatures. Heatlie says, “We need people to stop being keyboard warriors and start to be clipboard warriors.”
For those interested in swapping the keyboard for a clipboard get a direct link to each county’s Recall web page at recallgavin2020.com/county/yuba/ and replace “yuba” with your county’s name. That will show contact information for that county’s coordinator.
Is the Republican Party dead in California? It seems to be, particularly in Yuba-Sutter Counties where pettiness and control-freaks soured most folks on having a Central Committee. Nationwide, as thirteen Republican Pro-life ladies were getting elected to the U.S. Congress last week many California ‘Conservatives’ can’t decide whether permitting a preborn child to live is a right move?
The so-called California ‘Conservatives’ finally got around to endorsing the Recall Gavin effort but not providing any funding. A few years ago, state conservative leaders intentionally undermined the 3rd District Congressional campaign of Republican Assembly Minority Whip Dan Logue against Congressman John Garamendi. Now, Garamendi will likely have the post until he passes.
Their partisan vendetta with Logue had them recommending untra-liberal Garamendi rather than the conservative Assembly member. California Republic Party leaders reap what they sow preferring a club to a movement where they don’t get a personal halo. So, now there are so few “R” legislators in Sacramento they’re on the endangered species list.
Few or many, the pay is still the best in the nation ($114,877 salary, 53 cents per mile and $206 per diem each day.)
Maybe it will make no difference to the voters in a recall election how egregious the Constitutional violations of Newsom. The criminal and unethical behavior of Biden and Harris has served them well. In terms of a movement Conservatives, like most churches have rendered themselves non-essential and not-a-factor.
What the state needs is not a political wake-up but a spiritual awakening to ignite a new movement in California where leaders do what is right instead of being in the club of the right.
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