Group launching effort to recall Mike Dunleavy (R-AK)

[Pollster]

Group launching effort to recall Mike Dunleavy (R-AK)

[Epaminondas]

Do they have the numbers?

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Let's get Gravel to run against him lol

[ON Progressive]

Do they have the numbers?

70k is what’s needed I believe, and you could get that out of Anchorage alone.

[Esteemed Jimmy]

Let's get Gravel to run against him lol

[Terry the Fat Shark]

So that's 3 states now.... Colorado, Oregon, and Alaska

[PSOL]

Dunleavey should be removed for the budget fiasco he put the state in. Finally the fiscally responsible Bill Walker can run for his rightful second term.

[President Johnson]

Dunleavy seems to be a bad governor, but I'm actually critical of any recalls. Elections can't just be repeated as many times as we want because someone didn't like the result. Governors should only be removed if the violate the law (through impeachment) or did morally extremely behave in a bad way. Governing under the permanent threat of a recall isn't producing results and gives an executive less room to make unpopular decisions. Gray Davis should never have been recalled.

[PSOL]

Dunleavy seems to be a bad governor, but I'm actually critical of any recalls. Elections can't just be repeated as many times as we want because someone didn't like the result. Governors should only be removed if the violate the law (through impeachment) or did morally extremely behave in a bad way. Governing under the permanent threat of a recall isn't producing results and gives an executive less room to make unpopular decisions. Gray Davis should never have been recalled.

Alaska, especially its education system, is literally in a massive budget crisis because of his idiocy. If anything, this move is actually justified.

[President Johnson]

Dunleavy seems to be a bad governor, but I'm actually critical of any recalls. Elections can't just be repeated as many times as we want because someone didn't like the result. Governors should only be removed if the violate the law (through impeachment) or did morally extremely behave in a bad way. Governing under the permanent threat of a recall isn't producing results and gives an executive less room to make unpopular decisions. Gray Davis should never have been recalled.

Alaska, especially its education system, is literally in a massive budget crisis because of his idiocy. If anything, this move is actually justified.

Wasn't it already under Walker and the reason he was unpopular?

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

I don't see the problem of undoing elections through things like recalls. I'm of the opinion that our strict electoral calendar makes people less politically engaged overall

[Pollster]

I also see no problem with recalls - most democracies permit (and regularly use) motions of no confidence to trigger elections outside of a preset schedule to remove heads of government.

The problems I have are with recalls triggered specifically because the losing party is just unhappy with the results (see: Oregon and Colorado). Dunleavy's inept leadership and disastrous mishandling of the state's budget warrants a motion of no confidence.

[MT Treasurer]

I also see no problem with recalls [...]

The problems I have are with recalls triggered specifically because the losing party is just unhappy with the results

Surely you realize why this viewpoint might be problematic, right?

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

I think recalls can work in smaller states, but less so in bigger ones (or heaven forbid, a national recall) that would demand gigantic funding and so would only be open to Big Money.

[PSOL]

Dunleavy seems to be a bad governor, but I'm actually critical of any recalls. Elections can't just be repeated as many times as we want because someone didn't like the result. Governors should only be removed if the violate the law (through impeachment) or did morally extremely behave in a bad way. Governing under the permanent threat of a recall isn't producing results and gives an executive less room to make unpopular decisions. Gray Davis should never have been recalled.

Alaska, especially its education system, is literally in a massive budget crisis because of his idiocy. If anything, this move is actually justified.

Wasn't it already under Walker and the reason he was unpopular?

Bill Walker was not responsible for the collapse in oil prices and lack of economic change in Alaska for the past decade. He at least tried to maintain the budget by making necessary cuts to the oil fund so as to ensure other needs of Alaska were met. He made a tough choice for the best of his state and got booted for it.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Dunleavy seems to be a bad governor, but I'm actually critical of any recalls. Elections can't just be repeated as many times as we want because someone didn't like the result. Governors should only be removed if the violate the law (through impeachment) or did morally extremely behave in a bad way. Governing under the permanent threat of a recall isn't producing results and gives an executive less room to make unpopular decisions. Gray Davis should never have been recalled.

TBF It seems like most nations have some sort of mechanism for this, in parliamentary democracies it's a motion of no confidence, here it's a recall (which can't even be done for all positions...), there has to be some sort of mechanism for removal, be it impeachment or recall.

[TrendsareUsuallyReal]

I would support this if the LG didn’t become Governor instead. Getting rid of Dunleavy isn’t enough. You need a Democratic Governor. I’d rather just beat him in 2022 with a Democrat instead.

[Politician]

Recall Dunleavy group gets 10,000 signatures in a day, over a third of what it needs:
https://www.adn.com/politics/2019/08/03/recall-dunleavy-group-says-it-got-more-than-10000-signatures-on-the-first-day/

[LabourJersey]

Recall Dunleavy group gets 10,000 signatures in a day, over a third of what it needs:
https://www.adn.com/politics/2019/08/03/recall-dunleavy-group-says-it-got-more-than-10000-signatures-on-the-first-day/

Good. If I was an Alaskan I would be livid about those education cuts. He's kneecaping the whole education system in the state and all that's going to do is push young people to the mainland US.

[Ebsy]

This recall is already more serious than any of the GOP death rattles in NV, OR and CO.

[Mr. Smith]

I wonder if Begich will try again.

[TrendsareUsuallyReal]

I wonder if Begich will try again.

Would rather a fresh face at this point. Plenty of rising stars in the legislature who have proven their ability to win tough seats

[S019]

Begich is more or less the AK Democratic bench, and if he wins this, it might set him up for either a Senate bid, if Murkowski retires or is primaried, or a House seat, when Don Young finally retires

[Pollster]

Begich is the likely candidate but it would be great to see Forrest Dunbar make an attempt, especially since he was one of the masterminds behind the operation that created the "independent with the support of the Democratic party" model that has been so successful.

[Senator-elect Spark]

Let's get Gravel to run against him lol

xD