Today, the Committee to Recall Robert Cowles submitted over 25,000 signatures -- more than the required 15,960 -- to the state’s Government Accountability Board, becoming the ninth recall drive of state senators the board is reviewing that could eventually trigger a recall election. Of the nine, six target Republican state senators like Cowles, and three target Democratic state senators.
Don't you just love Democratic over achievement? Once again, at least 50% margin for rejections. And since the threshold for the recall is 25% of the voters who voted in the most recent election, that represents around 37% of district voters who have signed the petition.
Still waiting for the petitions to come in on Grothman. Were it not for the danger of obscuring signatures I'd want a coffee ring on every petition - you know, petitions collected by slobs.
Also delicious:
So far, of the 16 state senators eligible for recall – they must be serving in office for at least one year – three recall campaigns failed to collect the required number of signatures. The failed three were aimed at Democratic state senators.