It’s being reported as newsworthy that a "recall attempt" against State Senator Bob Huff failed to turn in enough signatures to qualify for the ballot — actually ZERO signatures were turned in. 

My question is — why is this news?  Elected officials are smacked with "Notice of Recall" forms fairly frequently, because doing this is not a difficult process, involving really an afternoon’s elbow grease.  It’s the subsequent process, in the case of state legislators, of collecting tens of thousands of signatures that is a major endeavor.

It was clear to anyone observing the process that except for the attempted recall against Anthony Adams, that no other recalls were potentially viable.

Let’s be clear — Huff may have supported Proposition 1A on the May special election ballot (I spoke with him about it at the time, and he felt that the modest revenue smoothing measure contained within it was worth the trade-off on higher taxes — we agreed to disagree) but he opposed the February budget deal that brought us the largest tax increase of any state in the history of America.

I didnt support a recall of Huff, but then again, I don’t know who did.  Which gets back to the point — which is that it isn’t newsworthy that recall petitions aren’t turned in when everyone knows that no meaningful campaign was constructed to gather signatures in the first place.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.