Today, the Committee to Recall Robert Cowles submitted over 25,000 signatures -- more than the required 15,960 -- to the state’s Government Accountability Board, becoming the ninth recall drive of state senators the board is reviewing that could eventually trigger a recall election. Of the nine, six target Republican state senators like Cowles, and three target Democratic state senators.
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Don't you just love Democratic over achievement? Once again, at least 50% margin for rejections. And since the threshold for the recall is 25% of the voters who voted in the most recent election, that represents around 37% of district voters who have signed the petition.
Still waiting for the petitions to come in on Grothman. Were it not for the danger of obscuring signatures I'd want a coffee ring on every petition - you know, petitions collected by slobs.
Also delicious:
So far, of the 16 state senators eligible for recall – they must be serving in office for at least one year – three recall campaigns failed to collect the required number of signatures. The failed three were aimed at Democratic state senators.
Updated by blue aardvark at Thu Apr 28, 2011 at 01:37 PM MST
Per PvtJarHead, Grothman is going to be on the ballot, too.
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