Sadly, we'll not be holding our breath
Intriguing story from yesterday's Standard-Examiner, reporting that "State Rep. Lee Perry is preparing a bill for January’s legislative session to create a recall election law in response to concerns expressed by Brigham City residents about the lack of a way to remove [the philandering] Mayor Dennis Fife from office":
Here's the fundamental question, wethinks. Does the GOP-dominated Utah Legislature have the guts to set up even a narrow legal process to oust creepy sickos like Fife from their duly-elected political offices?
Sadly, we'll not be holding our breath.
And what say you, O Gentle Ones?
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The problem, Ridi, is how do you define, in such a law, the circumstances that would justify a recall referendum? If you make it open ended, requiring only a certain number or percentage of the electorate to sign a recall petition, you run the risk of a party trying to simply un-do the previous election, but if you make the bar so high that it will almost never be cleared short of conviction for a felony, you haven't changed anything, really.
Do you really expect the same basic group of legislators who gave admitted child sexual predator Kevin Garn a standing ovation to make actual provisions for elected offical recall?
Good questions, Bob. Here's a pretty good article on the subject, which addresses some of your concerns, summarizes procedures among the fifty states, and delineates those jurisdictions which require specific grounds to support a recall election at state and local levels:
Recall of State Officials
Interesting concept, although I doubt Rep. Perry "has a snowball's chance" of getting this done in Utah.
Nope.
You got it right, Rudi. No way will the Utah legislature make a rule punishing Mormon Bishops for merely "boning" their enticing and sultry LDS parishioners.
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