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Bid to recall Jindal fails miserably short, with 55 of needed 908,000 signatures
Associated Press/nola.com ^ | July 01, 2011

Posted on 07/03/2011 4:38:19 PM PDT by BBell

BATON ROUGE -- An effort started six months ago to recall Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has fizzled, but the Opelousas man behind the petition will continue trying to oust the governor by running against him this fall.

Ron Ceasar would have needed to gather more than 908,000 verified signatures by early next week to get a recall election against Jindal. Fewer than five dozen have been registered with the Louisiana secretary of state's office.

"We would need all of them by the deadline set. We have only 55 at present, and the deadline is July 5th," Sailor Jackson, a spokesman for Secretary of State Tom Schedler, said Friday.

No one has ever successfully gathered enough signatures to get a recall election scheduled against a statewide or parishwide official in Louisiana.

A full-time Ph.D. student at Southern University, Ceasar said he and his supporters brought in more signatures than what is on file with the secretary of state's office, but he acknowledged the recall election won't happen.

(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: bobbyjindal; jindal; louisiana; recall
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Ceasar is a 58-year-old full-time Ph.D. student at Southern University. In other words a professional student leach/bum.
1 posted on 07/03/2011 4:38:28 PM PDT by BBell
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First thing he needs to do is to change his name, from Ron Ceasar to Ron Caesar.


2 posted on 07/03/2011 4:40:59 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Sounds like he went looking for his signatures among the PDS crowd. Really effective and powerful, that bunch.... /sarc


3 posted on 07/03/2011 4:41:09 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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I’m sure he will get right on using his Ph.D. to figure out a way to blame this on the “bitter clingers.”


4 posted on 07/03/2011 4:46:00 PM PDT by matt04
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“a professional student leach/bum.”

I was wondering how it was possible for him to find more than 55 winos to make their mark on a petition. Too lazy to cheat, eh?


5 posted on 07/03/2011 4:56:41 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks BBell.
the Opelousas man behind the petition will continue trying to oust the governor by running against him this fall
from the "Gift That Keeps On Giving" desk.


6 posted on 07/03/2011 4:57:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's the Obamacare, stupid! -- Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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The “I didn’t get my way so I want a do over” crowd faces a pretty high hurdle here in Michigan as well. I don’t doubt they’ll get plenty of signatures to recall Rick Snyder but they’ve still got to get them past our new secretary of state who made a name for herself by fighting ACORN and fake tea party fraud.

In other words, they have to get real verifiable signatures.


7 posted on 07/03/2011 4:57:44 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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55 of 908,000

Now THAT’S funny.


8 posted on 07/03/2011 5:00:33 PM PDT by samtheman
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Ceasar is a 58-year-old full-time Ph.D. student at Southern University.

Sounds like a real go-getter, 58 and not ready to leave the nest yet.

9 posted on 07/03/2011 5:04:05 PM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
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To: Windflier

As far as he knew EVERYONE wanted Jindal out. This shows how out of touch with people outside academia he is.


10 posted on 07/03/2011 5:05:11 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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no union muscle in LA like there is in wisconsin.


11 posted on 07/03/2011 5:08:59 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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55 signatures? You’d think they’d find more than that just from liberal staff at LSU!


12 posted on 07/03/2011 5:09:46 PM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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His future is ... behind him. Unless he’s already had a career and taken early retirement, I wonder what his retirement plans look like? Sponging off the government, I’m guessing.


13 posted on 07/03/2011 5:13:03 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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As usual the worms are coming out.


14 posted on 07/03/2011 5:13:28 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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How much more of a loser can there be than a 58-year old full-time PhD student?


15 posted on 07/03/2011 5:15:46 PM PDT by hsalaw
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...but the Opelousas man behind the petition will continue trying to oust the governor by running against him this fall.

And then his name recognition will shoot up to about 500 or so. From obscurity, to obscurity, with no stops in between...

16 posted on 07/03/2011 5:24:01 PM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: BBell

Why is this even a news story?


17 posted on 07/03/2011 5:27:24 PM PDT by kabar
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18 posted on 07/03/2011 5:30:51 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: kabar

Because it’s funny. Bet Rush will even spend some time on it.

It’s always a good thing to mock the Leftists.


19 posted on 07/03/2011 5:32:45 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle
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To: SuziQ

Do you perchance have a link to the story behind that pic? I’m fascinated..


20 posted on 07/03/2011 5:36:13 PM PDT by ken5050 (Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
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