Jindal recall petition filed!
Someone is either overconfident, very ambitious, or hopes that this recall effort will cause Jindal to reconsider his stance on using a veto on the pay raise.
I’ll sign it. I will even collect signatures in my neighborhood. I highly doubt it will work. The number of signatures required is far too great.
Update: More information here.
The two would have to collect and then have verified signatures from at least one-third of the registered voters in the state.
With more than 2.8 million registered voters in Louisiana, they would need in excess of 953,000 signatures to trigger a recall election.
Since they have 180 days to complete the collection of signatures, they need an average of 5,295 signatures per day. As I said, it is unlikely that it will happen. It would take an amazing amount of organization between people across the state. You would need to have locations where people could just show up and sign in every city. You would need to have volunteers to man those locations and make sure that every line of information is correct and proper. If it is anything like a petition to get on a ballot as a candidate, you need to put information like ward and precinct (things people don’t usually memorize) so you would have to have some utility that will allow people to look that up at each location. If they get it done, I will be shocked.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
The pay raise and the failure to veto have to be among the worst thought-out political moves in Louisiana history.
Wonder what Rush thinks about the ‘next Reagan’ now?
June 28th, 2008 at 9:38 am
I have absolutely no idea what Jindal is thinking. If anything Jindal used to be a “smart politician” (or at least was handled by people who knew how to smartly deal with politics).
This decision (and his stubbornness in refusing to change his mind) calls into question his common sense.