Signature-gathering can begin on Jean Quan recall

[alp227]

Source: SF Chron

A petition to recall Oakland Mayor Jean Quan was certified Wednesday for signature gathering just as a second group of residents submitted their own recall petition against the increasingly embattled mayor.

The backers of the first petition will have 160 days to collect roughly 20,000 valid signatures of registered Oakland voters, giving them a deadline of May 14.

Gene Hazzard, a photographer for the Oakland Post who has been politically active in the black community submitted the first petition and is controlling the campaign. Hazzard did not return calls Wednesday.

Hazzard was seen by several Oakland residents as being too controlling, leading to the creation of the two other groups.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/07/BAQ81M9R0L.DTL

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This is why ranked-choice voting is hardly a good idea; Quan was elected that way.

[lbrtbell]

1. Good. Get rid of her.

And get rid of any other mayor who allows police brutality.

[Arctic Dave]

2. Good, when she and walker are umemployed the can have a beer together

and debate who is the bigger douchebag.

[CoffeeCat]

7. LOL!!

Good one!

Gave me a real chuckle. And so true...that debate could go on for hours, I tell you!

:rofl:

[No Elephants]

8. Yep. A nice, bipartisan beer summit.

:puke:

[Dawson Leery]

3. Walker and Quan should run as tea partiers next fall.

[SoapBox]

4. ...cool.

[Armin-A]

5. what will this do for occupy

oakland?

[No Elephants]

9. Won't do anything for the vet who got hurt, either, but some Americans like justice

What's your point?

Do you think nothing should happen to her, she should just keep being Mayor and giving orders to the chief of police and other city officials?

[Armin-A]

12. i didn't have a point

was just wondering what people thought about what impact it will have if any to how they are treated

[Bogart]

11. Nothing, but this action is preferable to the violence we have seen emanating from this group.

It wouldn't surprise me to see them go after the ILWU leadership next.

"Only ILWU members or their elected representatives can authorize job actions on behalf of the union, and any decisions made by groups outside of the union?s democratic process do not hold water, regardless of the intent."

http://www.ilwu.org/?p=3296

[PatrynXX]

6. just take the petition to a group of marines in the area

and should get most of them. Marine's stand up for other Marine's.

[No Elephants]

10. I'm guessing most Marines are Republicans who will be happy to sign this petition for all the

wrong reasons.

Still, a signature is a signature.