Posted on 12/27/2009, 6:02:09 PM 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.
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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.
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