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Recall elections surge in local and state government
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Jun 26, 2011 12:41pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | NICHOLAS RICCARDI |
| Media | Newspaper - Sacramento Bee |
| News Date | Sunday, June 26, 2011 09:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The new president of Arizona's state Senate, Russell Pearce, had only 21 days to enjoy that position before opponents began circulating petitions in January to recall the freshly re-elected conservative.
That's more time than Jim Suttle had. The night the Democrat was elected mayor of Omaha in 2009, backers of his rivals began to talk online about trying to remove him from office. Suttle barely survived a recall election in January.
Once a political rarity, recall elections are surging in local and state government.
The number of mayors who faced recalls doubled in 2010 from the previous year, the U.S. Conference of Mayors said. Anti-tax activists even tried to recall two Democratic U.S. senators last year, only to be shot down by courts, which noted that there are no provisions for recalls in federal law.
Joshua Spivak, who studies recalls and blogs about them at recallelections.blogspot.com, said there have been only 20 attempted recalls of state legislators in U.S. history. This year, 10 are already on the ballot. Much of that is because of an unprecedented outbreak of recalls in Wisconsin, where the newly elected Republican governor's proposal to limit the power of unions led to recalls against six Republican state senators who voted for the bill, and three Democrats who left the state to try to stop its passage. |
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