This may go down as the worst recall effort in history. An effort begun in January to unseat Republican Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has flopped, failed, bombed, fallen flat, washed out. Get out your thesaurus, because we’ve run out of words to describe it.
Nola.com has the details:
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.
First time we read the story we thought it must have been a typo and was supposed to have read “55 thousand signatures” or “55 percent of the necessary signatures”. But, no, the total number of signatures was a mere fifty five. Period.
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.
Ceasar operates his own accounting and tax services company. He has a bachelor’s degree and an MBA. In this case, though, the numbers just don’t add up.
Source: Nola.com
