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benito Donating Member (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 12:11 PM
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Recall Blanco effort
http://www.recallgovernorblanco.com/

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=4343443
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A formal push to oust Gov. KathleenBlanco, after harsh criticism of her response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita, began Tuesday when a St. Martinville resident filed arecall petition with Louisiana's elections office.

The task is a tough one: in Louisiana, a recall election requires handwritten petition signatures from at least one-third of the state's registered voters, or about 900,000 people, in 180 days, according to Jennifer Marusak of the secretary of state's office.

Then, a majority of voters in a recall election would have to vote to get rid of Blanco, a Democrat, before she would be forced out of office.

Kat Landry, a Republican who filed the petition, said the state needs new leadership to recover from the back-to-back blows of the hurricanes that damaged most of the state's coast - and the city of New Orleans - because Blanco has performed poorly.

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tetedur Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-11-06 07:53 AM
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1. This will be very interesting.
I believe Blanco won election because of the numbers of Democrats in the New Orleans area. Now those people are scattered to the winds. The Republicans are licking their chops over this. I feel like a dying breed.
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Anita Garcia Donating Member (869 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-11-06 10:55 AM
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2. Yes
Exactly what is it that the Democratic Governor has done that makes her liable for a recall petition that our Republican President has not done to the nth degree?
That's right...she's a registered Democrat.
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lies and propaganda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-22-06 09:11 PM
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3. Too bad Kat Landry isnt filing to recall the shit pres
and his minions that allowed for the atrocities way more than a gov who filed for state of emergency two days prior. There is a massive snowjob going on in La right now because of the Repg exploiting bastards.
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BRLIB Donating Member (347 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-22-06 10:47 PM
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4. Cause Kat is a Rethug and it is all Clinton's fault!
I sent an email to the witch:

You are the "Culture of Corruption!
Fk You and Jack-Off Abramoff!
You are all Criminals!!
Your Master Bush put "Heck of a Job Brownie" in charge of FEMA so why don't you want to recall your Master Bush, eh?
Fuckin hypocrites all of you Neanderthals.
FK You, You Repugs are nothing but excrement!






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lies and propaganda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 03:03 AM
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5. well, its safe to say that we are on the same page!
I saw Brownie on CSPAN with soemthing about his emergency disaster consulatation business. I threw up in my mouth that cspan just gave this pos a commercial.
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Cruiser34 Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-09-06 01:05 AM
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7. Fk Kat Landry= Repug hack!
Good one, now I want to send her a letter!
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 03:59 PM
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8. Hi Cruiser34!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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AnnInLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 11:46 PM
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6. Good rebuttal arguments from Dem Stephen Handwerk
In the Times of Acadiana story on the recall, Lafayette Dem activist Stephen Handwerk offered much more logical reasons why a recall effort is not needed nor appropriate:

http://www.timesofacadiana.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060201/NEWS0102/602010301/1051


"In all honesty, I feel that it's a complete and total waste of time," says Stephen Handwerk, a member of the Lafayette Parish Democratic Executive Committee and the Progressive Democrats for Louisiana and the host of Meet the Democrats on Acadiana Open Channel. "It's taking our efforts and using them to divide us and focusing on things that aren't helping anyone. We still have people that are homeless. We still have people that don't have enough food to eat. We still have kids that are not in school. I think it's a complete and total waste of time."


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"Not that I am blindly partisan to the point where I will be a cheerleader to anyone who has a D beside their name," says Handwerk. "I'd like to counter and say, 'Who could have done better?'"





When Handwerk talks of the Blanco's work surround Katrina, he relates tales of Houston residents stuck in traffic for eight hours as Rita approached. The 92 percent evacuation of New Orleans, while it could have been better, he says was respectable.

"We are talking about the largest natural disaster ever to face this country just with Katrina alone," says Handwerk. "Then add on top of that Rita, which affected us and our friends to the west. We literally have two black eyes now, and to get into something like this?"


"If that's the case, someone on our side said, 'Well let's work on recalling Sen. (David) Vitter, Congressman (Charles) Boustany and all of the others that influenced this entire situation.' But you know what, we've got more things to focus on right now and that's to take care of the immediate need of making sure people have a place to sleep at night, that they have food to eat and that their kids are taken care of. We want to rebuild. We want to make better what we have in this state.

more at:

http://www.timesofacadiana.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060201/NEWS0102/602010301/1051
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