I agree with Red Stick Rant's post on this. See Tilting At Recalls.
Beside it most likely being Unconstitutional I see it as bad politics in many ways. As he notes despite the legal issues:
Attempting a recall would take up a lot of our time, our money and our effort, and would distract us from winnable issues that will resonate with a majority of voters in 2010. If we want to change things we need to focus on 51%-plus solutions, not 3.79% solutions. The best way to remove Mary Landrieu's power now is to make her a member of the minority party in the Senate in January 2011, or at a minimum, remove the 60-seat majority in the Democrats enjoy in the Senate.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
You Cannot Recall Mary Landrieu
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You remind me of a story of two soldiers in a fox hole pinned down by machine gun fire.
One says he he can take out the machine gun nest and the second soldier does every thing to talk him out of it.
The first soldier crawl out and is about half way there when the second soldier lobs a hand grenade at him because he will never make it.
The citizens of Louisiana are granted the authority to perform a recall election by the Section 26 of Article 10 of the Louisiana Constitution.
http://www.ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Laws_governing_recall_in_Louisiana
Landrieu is a public officer and represents the people of the United States in the district from which she is elected. The United States Sovereignty comes from the Individual States; the Individual States Sovereignty comes from the Sovereign Citizens of that State. Yes, she represents the “people of the United States”, but prior to that she must belong to a sovereign state, and to be eligible to occupy that office she must be a citizen of that state, and as a sovereign citizen of that state she is elected or rejected by fellow citizens of that sovereign state. Bottom line: No Sovereign Citizens, no Sovereign States, no Sovereign States no United States Sovereignty.
The Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. The Tenth Amendment belongs to the People.
Specifically the 1st Amendment clearly states: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The people of Louisiana put her in office and we can take her out of office. It is really that simple.
No court of authority has ruled on recall petitions. The opinion of our attorney general or of any one else, is an opinion, and nothing more.
The US Congress cannot pass laws to protect themselves from the will of the people. See First Amendment. (The people have the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.) This is an apt description of what this recall petition is.
The republican form of government acknowledges that the sovereign power is founded in the people, individually, not in the collective or whole body of free citizens, as in a democratic form. Thus no majority can deprive a minority of their sovereign rights and powers. The democratic form of government will give the lamb to the wolves.
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