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March 16, 2010
Counter-Moonbattery Alert: Throw the Bum Out
Posted by The MaryHunter at March 16, 2010 3:24 PM
A Tea Party activist group in New Jersey has been given the green light by a state court to initiate a recall petition effort against Democrat U.S. Senator Robert Menendez.
There's no question the odds of success are slim: A successful recall vote requires a fourth of the state's registered voters to sign the petition in order to get the issue on the fall ballot (Menendez' term ends in January of 2013).
That would mean roughly 1.3 million such signatures are needed.
"Given the will of the people embodied in our state organic law, and the dearth of clear precedent nullifying the people's enactments, we accordingly decline at this juncture to find our state constitutional provision and related stature permitting recall of a United States Senator to be unconstitutional," the Appeals Court found.
The opinion added, "The silence of the federal Constitution [on recall] may well result in the conclusion that it may be done."
The State Supreme Court has not even chimed in yet, so don't hold your breath for a first-ever U.S. Senator recall.
What do the Democrats say about this? Exactly: "Tea Partiers are RACISTS!" It must get real tired to have but one retort for any activism against a Democrat politician who is not a pure-blood cracker.
If Menendez gets ousted, he's always got shadow-puppeteering.
Hat tip: The Daily Caller.
