Posted on 12/27/2009 10:02:09 AM PST by Renkluaf
A “Committee to Recall U.S. Senator Robert Menendez,” sponsored by the Sussex County Tea Party has announced plans to launch an effort to recall Senator Robert Menendez from his position in office. Helping to lead the charge is New Jersey Tea Parties United, the state's grass-roots coalition of county and regional Tea Party groups representing several thousand members in support of fiscal responsibility, individual liberty and limited government. The Committee filed a formal Notice of Intention to Recall with the Secretary of State's office on September 25, 2009. While the office of the Secretary of State acknowledged receipt of the Committee's Notice of Intention to Recall in a letter dated October 5, 2009, it has since provided no further communication. NJ state law requires that administrators respond either with an approval or with a notice of non-compliance stating the reasons within three business days of receiving the Notice, which was October 4, 2009. Since no response had been received, on November 25, 2009, the Committee filed a civil complaint in the Essex County Superior Court of New Jersey against Nina Mitchell Wells, Secretary of State and Robert F. Giles, Director of the Division of Elections, demanding that the defendants be ordered to immediately and forthwith comply with state law by issuing a response to the Committee’s Notice of Intention. To date, the Secretary of State has ignored the Notice and the Complaint in violation of state law and the Committee is awaiting a decision from the court.
For up to date information, go to:
njrecallnow.blogspot.com
www.defendingamericanfreedom.com or
www.njteapartiesunited.org.
Once the notice is approved by the state or by court Order, the Committee to Recall along with NJ Tea Parties United will spearhead a large coordinated petition drive to collect signatures in support of a special recall election. NJ state law requires a minimum number of signatures equivalent to at least 25% of the prior general election's registered voters in order to grant a special recall election.
Appointed to a special one-year term by Governor Jon Corzine in November 2005, Robert Menendez was subsequently elected in 2006 during the mid-term election and has served in the US Senate for just over four years as a Democrat representing New Jersey. His term isn't scheduled to end until January 2013. The Recall Committee and New Jersey Tea Parties United believe that Senator Menendez has sided with rigidly partisan politicians in his repeated votes for cloture on a variety of key bills, stifling public debate in the Senate and denying New Jersey citizens transparency. For example, the Senator voted down an amendment that would have prevented Medicare from being raided for new entitlements[1], and another that would have limited the government's control over the health care of American families[2]. During this difficult financial period when Americans are cutting their own budgets and trying to save every penny, Senator Menendez voted down proposals to remove from spending bills a number of extravagant, excessive multi-million dollar projects that offered little or no short-term economic benefits[3]. When an amendment was proposed to transfer some of the country’s funding for the United Nations contributions to help offset the costs of providing assistance to family caregivers of our disabled veterans, he voted against it[4]. And in one case, Senator Menendez voted against allowing each member of Congress and the Secretary of Defense to simply review the allocation of certain taxpayer funds[5].
One NJ Tea Party member put it this way, “When NJ voters came out to the polls in November of 2008, they voted for the transparency and accountability that was promised. Rather than believe his own constituents who have desperately been trying to convey their wishes to him on health care reform without a government run option, he chooses to dismiss us, making public statements on the senate floor that our concerns are all nothing more than the greedy insurance companies lobbying to protect themselves.” It is statements like this that have convinced the Committee, NJ Tea Parties United, and other tea party members that Senator Menendez is one of many elitists in government that are more concerned with promoting their own careers than doing what is right for the American people. Those spearheading this effort hope that this will be the first recall of many throughout the nation and that the Constitutional government of the United States can be restored to the American people, to whom it belongs.
[1] Vote 368: H R 3590: Gregg Amdt. No. 2942
[2] http://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=495114&keyword=&phrase=&contain
[4] Vote 310: H R 3326; Vote 285: H R 3288; Vote 284: H R 3288; Vote 283: H R 3288
[5] Vote 310: H R 3326: Coburn Amdt. No. 2565
Sussex County Tea Party contact:
RoseAnn Salanitri, Founder (Branchville, NJ)
Phone: (973)948-8553, Email: roseann216@gmail.com
Alternate Contact:
Tim Adriance, NJ Tea Parties United
Phone: 201-674-8031, Email: tim@njteapartycoalition.org
Legal Contact:
Dan Silberstein, Esq.
Phone: (732) 388-8600, Email: dsilberstein@dpspc.com
bttt
Count me IN!
Sign me up, I couldn’t get to the link provided. But Menendez comes from my old hometown area of Hudson County, NJ. and any politican from Hudson County is so crooked if they swallowed a nail they’d poop a screw.
Any chance it could be done by Jan 18th?
Behold an example of what resides in the US Congress; an Elitist drunkard that disgraces his country and the state he represents. Clean the RAT sewer in 2010 and 2012
http://newsrealblog.com/2009/12/26/senator-max-baucus-in-a-drunken-tirade-on-senate-floor/
Another Elitist disgrace:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsGR83Imoto
Good luck. Your efforts hopefully will wake some people up but will not result in a recall.
Can the good people of Montana recall Baucus for us? He needs to be fired.
Correct links are:
http://njrecallnow.blogspot.com/
http://www.defendingamericanfreedom.com/
http://njteapartiesunited.org/
Sorry 'bout that.
Sussex County = Lou Dobbs’ home county.
Since when can you recall a person elected to a Federal office, i.e., the President, a Senator or a Congressman? It can’t be done. Recalls of state elected persons are allowed only in those state with a Recall law on the books.
“NJ state law requires a minimum number of signatures equivalent to at least 25% of the prior general election’s registered voters in order to grant a special recall election.”
Really difficult to do, but I suppose it is worth trying.
The constitution was deliberately written that way to prevent recalls every fifteen minutes.
Why not a Recall, need to wake these crooks up.
http://www.njelections.org/2008_pressrelease/p2008-120208-rev.htm
TOTAL
Total Numberof Registered Voters
5,378,792
Total Number of Ballots Cast
3,910,220
Would need 977,555 signatures to pull this off. That would mean of all of the 2008 Dick Zimmer voters 1,461,025, 67% would need to sign the petition. To get a million signatures in a suburban state like NJ, you’d need something like 25,000 signature collector volunteers. There’s only about 25,000 core libertarian Republican actives, and 40,000 to 60,000 core Republican conservatives in the state.
Menendez would have to get caught sleeping with a major Democrat donor’s underage granddaughter this time to get enough outrage to force him out through recall.
Didn’t think that there was a recall provision for federal legislators.
Good for you guys!!!
Montana already has petitions circulating to get rid of Baucus. They also are pissed at their other Senator.
New Jersey Brain Trust ping
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Do it anyway to send these jerks the message that they’re TOAST and traitors. It also wakes up the clueless.
The United States Constitution does not provide for nor authorize the recall of United States officers such as Senators, Representatives, or the President or Vice President, and thus no Member of Congress has ever been recalled in the history of the United States. The recall of Members was considered during the time of the drafting of the federal Constitution in 1787, but no such provisions were included in the final version sent to the States for ratification, and the specific drafting and ratifying debates indicate an express understanding of the Framers and ratifiers that no right or power to recall a Senator or Representative from the United States Congress exists under the Constitution.
We need to find out if this can be done in all the states, not just this one. Does anyone here on FR know?
Thanks - keep me posted.
We HATE him too.
Hooray, the game is afoot, as Sherlock Holmes would say.
"Recalls" are a waste of time. If you can't get it right at the ballot box during the regular election season, I don't see why anyone deserves a "do-over." They only get away with such anti-Republic acts in Calipornia, and you now what an example said state is to the rest of the nation.
Obviously, plenty of people think this is a waste of time. They probably said that about the Tea Parties - the ones last summer as well as the one back in 1773.
As for the "you can't recall Senators/Representatives," I'm no lawyer but there have been lawyers working on this for some time. If it were such a slam dunk to be shot down, the NJ Sec. of State's office wouldn't have ignored the petition.
What I do know is that I'll be collecting signatures for them.
And yes, Salvey, Sussex is the county of Lou Dobbs residency. My understanding is that the recall petitions have to include the name of the replacement candidate. That'll be interesting to see who's name is on it.
I’m not saying it can’t be done. But I’ve lived in New Jersey all my life. I know Democrats. Particularly in Hudson County where Menendez is from. heck, I used to be Democrat, from Hudson County. . All I’m saying is it would be almost impossible to get rid of Menendez.
That was the response from gubmint cheese lovers in the DPRNJ. This is a good civics lesson. I have to get the answer.... Tomorrow. After the Cowboys Redskins game. Bookmark for me.
If it were possible, it probably would be done fairly frequently.
The feds make themselves untouchable. They write the rules, after all.
I tend to think of it in a more positive light.
Our Founding Fathers were geniuses. They had their faults but they were brilliant.
There is a reason why SCOTUS justices are lifetime appointees and unaccountable to the masses directly.
If they had to do what was PC to get re-elected they couldn’t possibly uphold the Constitution. (yes indirectly they are appointed by politicians. But it can backfire...see O’Connor, Sandra Day a Reagan appointee or Kennedy a Bush 1 appointee, they ended up as swing votes)
What exactly is the law regarding the recall of Senators?
You could save me a lot of time by doing the research for me.
The Declaration of Independence of the Democrat Party
In CONGRESS, December 24, 2009
The unanimous Declaration of the Democrat Party of the united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one Party to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with the People, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and elite station to which the Laws of Nature entitle them, an absolute contempt for the opinions of Americans in no way requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Nevertheless, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, with the following current exceptions:
Florida gets $3.5 billion to pay for seniors to keep their Medicare Advantage policies, when seniors in other states will be forced out of theirs;
Vermont gets $600 million for its Medicaid program, and Massachusetts gets $500 million, when other States get nothing;
Nebraska’s Mutual of Omaha gets an exemption from the tax we levied on other Medigap insurance providers, and a similar exemption for Blue Cross/Blue Shield; and
Michigan gets a special tax exemption for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, while the rest of the country does not;
Montana gets to extend Medicare to anyone exposed to a health hazard on a certain date, when other States do not;
Democrat party special interest groups get an exemption from the 40% excise tax we slapped on "Cadillac" health-care plans, but other Americans do not;
Not to mention hundreds of millions of dollars in payoffs to other special interest groups, and States, including Lousiana, &etc.
And, lest anyone forget, the history of the former President of the United States [George II] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States, by the Republican Party, tea-baggers, independent voters, and other Nazis. To prove this, we simply refer you to our party’s media organs. Rest assured, anything bad is all his & their fault.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the Democrat Party of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to our own desire for Supreme power, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these States, solemnly publish and declare, That this Democrat Party is, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent of the People of the States; that the Party is Absolved from all Allegiance to the People, and that all political connection between the Party and the People, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as a Free and Independent Party, we have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent Elites may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of our special interest groups, we mutually pledge to each other our PACs, our mailing lists and positive media coverage.
The signers of the Declaration represented the States as follows:
New Hampshire
Jeanne ("Don't hurt me!") Shaheen
Massachusetts
John ("17 Purple Hearts - and I really did bleed - once - at home!") Kerry, Paul "yawn" Kirk
Rhode Island
Jack "yawn" Reed, Sheldon ("Only in your dreams, dip sh!t") Whitehouse
Connecticut
Christopher ("So what's my final interest rate?") Dodd, Joseph ("Watery-jello-trying-to-look-like-granite") Lieberman
New York
Hillary Clinton [sic, actually whats-her-name-gilybrand-which-means-what-exactly?], Charles ("Microphone Moth") Schumer
New Jersey
Frank ("Sure, I'll serve, if you buy me the election") Lautenberg, Robert "What ever" Menendez
Pennsylvania
Robert ("What? Say what?") Casey, Arlen ("Get me Major Andre on the phone!") Specter
Delaware
Thomas "yawn" Carper, Edward "yawn!" Kaufman
Maryland
Benjamin "yawn!!" Cardin, Barbara ("Where's Red Square?") Mikulski
Virginia
Mark ("I can make how much?") Warner, Jim ("Where's my gun?") Webb
North Carolina
Kay ("What am I doing in this state?") Hagan
Alaska
Mark ("Thanks DOJ!!!") Begich
Arkansas
Blanche ("Where's Arkansas?") Lincoln, Mark ("Please let me be like the Clintons!") Prior
California
Barbara ("Don't quote anything I just told you, because I'll deny it!") Boxer, Diane ("China-chi-ching!!!") Feinstein
Colorado
Michael ("Appointed to grandeur - naturally!") Bennet, Mark ("My family name is solid gold!") Udall
Florida
Bill ("Where's my money - or is it his money?") Nelson
Hawaii
Daniel ("China is our future") Akaka, Daniel ("China is our future - I told him that") Inouye
Illinois
Roland ("What the heck!") Burris, Dick ("American troops are worse than @#$%^#$ NAZIS!!!") Durbin
Indiana
Evan ("My family name is better than yours!") Bayh
Iowa
Tom ("Just tell me what to say...") Harkin
Lousiana
Mary ("The Price is Right!") Landrieu
Michigan
Carl ("Hero of the Soviet Union") Levin, Debbie ("What does 'economics' mean?") Stabenow
Minnesota
Al ("The Diaper") Franken, Amy ("I really wish I could speak - and understand - Minnesotan!") Klobuchar
Missouri
Claire ("Believe me!") McCaskill
Montana
Max ("MAX BAUCUS!") Baucus, Jon ("Where the heck is Montana - or is it Wyoming?") Tester
Nebraska
Ben ("I really do have principles, but - what the heck!") Nelson
Nevada
Harry ("Searchlight, Nevada is the mining claim scam capital of the universe, so it's not my fault!") Reid
New Mexico
Jeff ("Not half as good as Pete, but he's gone - finally!") Bingaman, Tom ("Ain't my family name also just grand!") Udall
North Dakota
Kent ("We're honest - really!") Conrad, Byron (We're really, really honest!") Dorgan
Ohio
Sherrod ("What?") Brown
Oregon
Jeff ("Global warming!") Merkley, Ron ("Global even-more-warming! Run!") Wyden
South Dakota
Tim ("yawn") ("What?") Johnson
Vermont
Patrick ("The laws are made for OTHER people!") Leahy, Bernie ("State of Vomit") Sanders
Washington
Maria ("I didn't actually STEAL the election!") Cantwell, Patty ("We didn't actually STEAL the election!") Murray
West Virginia
Robert ("Grand Kluxer - and don't forget to honor me & the party!") Byrd, Jay ("I ain't got no money") Rockefeller
Wisconsin
Russ ("Power to MY people!") Feingold, Herb ("yawn...") Kohl
Yes, indeed.
Hope it works. It would be a real stunner if it does.
This is EXACTLY the reason this needs to be done!!! This government has grown TOO BIG and TOO powerful... It has control over too many aspects of our lives!!! These people are treasonous in every decision they make. They no longer represent us... the U.S. citizen! They care only about gaining power, money and control That is the complete opposite of what our forefathers intended!
We’re going for a recall!
RecallBegich.ning.com
In Perpetuum Rights
http://www.inperpetuumrights.blogspot.com/
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