In Colorado & other states, Republicans see recalls as a short cut back to power

[brucejoel99]

*Trump gets elected without winning popular vote*
Republicans: "Deal with it libtards! He's our president now!! This is how democracy works!!1!"

​*Democrats get elected to governorships*
Republicans: "This is against the will of the people & must be stopped!"

[brucejoel99]

So I don't know much about state recall laws so this might not be possible... but if it is, why precisely aren't the Democrats using this against Kemp? Or DeSantis? Or Ducey?

Or are Democrats just that spineless and sh!t at politics that they'd unilaterally surrender a political weapon to the GOP?

Recall laws are not the same in all states, either. Florida does not have recall elections for state-level officials.

In Arizona, an elected official can be recalled for any reason. Threshold there is pretty high, though- 25% of total voters in the previous election for the official desired to be recalled need to sign a recall petition.

In Georgia, it seems that the official that a group wishes to recall needs to do something illegal or borderline illegal to even be considered for a recall election for their position.

Thanks very much, the exact info I wanted to know. Seems like it's not an option for the Democrats then (quelle surprise on that front). Looks like Polis and Sisolak are going to get term limited four years early with no response from Democrats other than outrage. Again, quelle surprise.

LOL these recall efforts aren't going anywhere.

[brucejoel99]

Scott Walker was recalled over the underhanded tactics he used to force through collective bargaining restrictions for teachers despite promising not to support RTW on the campaign trail. Republicans are attempting to recall Kate Brown for... signing legislation she campaigned on? That enjoys broad support in the legislature and the public? Not sure the situations are comparable at all.

Yeah, comparing Republicans wanting to recall Brown to Democrats wanting to recall Walker is quite the false equivalence.

[brucejoel99]

That was different because Scott Walker was bad and Wisconsin was a titanium Democrat state.

Still crazy to me that there's no effort to recall the guy who admitted to basically being a huge racist in multiple different ways, which is one of the very few things I think probably could be worth an attempt. But maybe there's something I'm unclear about regarding the Virginia Constitution.

Voters cannot initiate a recall of an elected official in Virginia

Yeah, there can't be an "effort to recall" when there's no possible way to go about conducting said "effort to recall" lol