Are there mechanisms in place for recalling governors?

[velvetpage]

What a lousy, cowardly cretin! He split the union-busting portion of the bill from the part that spends money. They don't need a quorum for any bill that doesn't spend money, so they could pass the union-busting portion even without the fourteen senators who went to Illinois.

I hope they recall the bastard, but I'm terribly afraid that if they do, he'll run for President and get it.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/03/09/us/AP-US-Wisconsin-Budget-Unions.html?_r=1&emc=na

Comments

[ruggerdavey.livejournal.com]

I hope they recall the bastard, but I'm terribly afraid that if they do, he'll run for President and get it.

If that happened, I really would have to run away to Canada. Or somewhere. Seriously, if the treatment of teachers gets that bad in this country, I'll go teach at an international school somewhere. Or maybe an independent school in London - my sister says they pay better than the state schools over there (she teaches nursery school/reception in a state school there now). It's getting to be SO demoralizing.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Not that Obama is turning out to be any better for education - he keeps supporting things like merit pay and standardized testing, despite all the evidence that they're horrible for everyone concerned.

[ruggerdavey.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally agree. I feel SO let down by him.

[amyura.livejournal.com]

Me too. He totally threw teachers and really everyone on the left under the bus.

[wolfden.livejournal.com]

I hope he is recalled. I don't think he could support a presidential bid - people are on to him and actively against him.

I don't have an account with the NY Times but just wow. I hope the representatives that are there got the message the protests intended to send.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Some of the Republican senators in Wisconsin are already facing recall measures. And I'm sure there will be constitutional challenges about how the vote was conducted - it was rammed through in minutes and nobody got the chance to see the final bill before it was passed. There's got to be some parliamentary procedural law that they broke to do that.

[wolfden.livejournal.com]

No doubt. I hope they recall him so much. He has way over reached his bounds.

[amyura.livejournal.com]

I don't think he could win nationally. He's like a male Sarah Palin. Stupid and polarizing.

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

I am ready to leave Ohio anyway. The state government is making it easy to want to go.

[lee-in-limbo.livejournal.com]

Sadly, it's probably not legal to recall him before his first year is up, and in that time, he can do a lot of damage that will take somebody else a full term to fix, if they even get the chance. That's half of what's making this mad dash GOP/teabagger end run so hard to look at. They're literally scrapping the entire social network, state by state, of the United States, taking it back to pre-Depression era standards. It's hard to fathom, but they're actively working to undo more than eighty years of progress in the space of months. Utterly fantastic, in a horrifying way.