Group mounts effort to recall (Gov.) Murkowski (R-AK)

[goobergunch]

Governor's spokesman says initiative backers have no legal grounds for a recall

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER
JUNEAU EMPIRE © 2003

Following the success of the California recall, Alaskans in Anchorage, Fairbanks and the Kenai Peninsula are meeting this weekend in Talkeetna to craft language for a ballot initiative to recall Gov. Frank Murkowski.

Soren Wuerth, 38, a former chairman for the Alaska Green Party and an Anchorage activist who has worked on various initiatives for more than a decade, called Murkowski morally bankrupt for policy decisions he's made since taking office last year.

Murkowski spokesman John Manly said the group has no legal grounds for recalling the governor.

"It sounds to me like it's a group of people who are dissatisfied with the way Gov. Murkowski is going about governing the state," Manly said. "Any time a leader takes the initiative and shows some leadership, somebody is not going to like it."

more...http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101003/loc_recall.shtml

57,871 signatures are required. Let the fun begin!

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Welcome to the chaos states of America

Yep, this is what Issa, our lovely car thieve started.

You think he expected this?

[judge_smales]

2. Don't think he gave too much thought to any long term

consequences at all.

[roguevalley]

3. I'm torn. He took a little stipend away from old people, including my

parents. I hate this chaos. What do you think we Alaskans should do?
Revenge motives aside?

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Well you are now in the place

I was oh this tuesday.

Yuo can put all principle aside and vote forthe recal,
or if he is not guilty put principle and the welfare
of the state ahead.

Which means at this point YOU have to decide whether to
sign the petition, for the record I did not, and if I had
been able to vote (my name went away from rolls hence
abseentee was impossible to vote), I woudl have voted
against it on principle.

Now the larger question is how many states, there are 16,
will now descent to eternal election cycles?

Now if Daryl actually thought about it and they were these
devious, this is a good way to cancel constitutions after the chaos really gets out of hand. If they were not that devious, this is
unintended... so far I think three states are looking at it.

NV, OR, and now AK

[salin]

5. This movement is insane. To support it would invite never ending

elections and recalls. It would amount to "do over" politics. I don't like Murkowski. But I like less the new "do over" politics attitude that I believe is harmful to democracy. Perhaps that is the point. Keep campaigning continuous in a few places (high media attention) so that the legislators/congress can keep legislatively destroying our country while noone is looking.

[izzie]

7. Get the party that wants to get out of the union into it.

They were all over the state when I lived in Alaska.

[LuminousX]

6. I hope they have better rules than CA

I support the idea of a Recall option but the bar needs to be set higher than it was in CA.

[izzie]

8. When they came in to the union they took Ore. laws.

They did re-vamp them in the '80s