EDITOR:
“Recall Gov. Davis” read the banner fastened to my wife’s
ironing board. I was standing behind it outside a grocery store at
10 a.m. one recent Saturday.
EDITOR:
“Recall Gov. Davis” read the banner fastened to my wife’s ironing board. I was standing behind it outside a grocery store at 10 a.m. one recent Saturday.
The certified recall petitions were downloaded from the internet. With all the public attention focused on the Middle East, I was curious whether enthusiasm for the recall would be sustained.
“Yes!” appears to be the resounding answer. I was there for only an hour. It was a “slow” traffic time of day. During that hour, without any further actions on my part, 27 people stopped and signed the recall petitions. It is reported that over 60,000 people contacted the recall web sites to order petitions.
Some 1,200,000 signatures are required to cause a recall election. That is 20 signatures for each of those 60,000 that requested petition downloads so far. I got my share in less than an hour.
One guy signed the petition even before I had the ironing board (table) set up. Another asked for two blank petitions before we were set up. I watched as a lady signed then returned into the store to her waiting husband. He complained and the last I saw she was making it clear why he was wrong.
Many waved in passing, or wished us “good luck” after signing. One lady parked in traffic to get out and sign. (Not a good idea.) A young man stopped, “I’m only 17, but I’d sign if I could.” A car pulled out of traffic, the passenger jumped out and took a clipboard back to the driver while she returned to sign the petition on a second clip board.
The only negative comment in the hour: A man asked, “What did he (Davis) do?” I replied, “He sold the governorship.” With a wave off and scowl, “Get Bush. He’ll do that for you.”
Download your own petition and instructions from www.DavisRecall.com
In 1787, President George Washington wrote, “The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes … to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it [political power] is executed contrary to their interest, … their (elected) servants can, and undoubtedly will, be recalled.”
Ben Gilmore, Morgan Hill
