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
This post was last modified on July 7, 2011
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"Black Power" good, "White Power" evil and racist!
WOW! Just wow! First, Bobby can't be any worse than Mary Landreau, who let New Orleans drown while she bickered about who would be in charge! And in Louisiana politics, the chance of getting anyone better than Bobby is slim to none. And if this guy is a PhD student, why isn't he focusing on completing his thesis and getting the hell out of school? He doesn't have any business doing ANYTHING ELSE until he completes his degree or drops out!
Mary Landreau? You mean Kathleen Blanco, right?
Maybe. I'm old and my memory ain't what it used to be!
Wow , you guys are so dumb. We have a sitting prez who has no verified educational record. No verified anything . That's proof that being smart is as simple as saying you're smart . Say the smart things , be in the smart places , can anyone say WINNER !!!!
This speciman of intellectual and moral diversity , just might someday be the prez. Hope and change is such a beautiful thing ( tear) insn't it. I just wished you dumb folks could get with the program.-- Oblivious ( APINO)-charter member of American Patriots in Name Only.
"Sailor Jackson"? WTF? Whose signatures were on there then, Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury?
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
I'd like to see Ron Ceasar's transcripts. This guy looks like a affirmative action idiot, at best. Damn reject from the Animal Planet.
How exactly was he rejected from the Animal Planet? Did he apply as a producer for a program there or something? Or was this just another one of your racist statements where you are comparing him to an animal because he is black?
He LOOKS like an affirmative action person? You couldn't even say that he seems so by what he did or said? Lame.
So your answer to me is a thumbs down? What? You will be a racist and post your racist crap all around the site, but you WON'T defend your racism? Wow... you are a coward on all aspects of life aren't you?
Yes, he is.
With numbers like that I don't think he'll ever be doing any accounting or tax work for me.
Are you trying to tell me that undocumented democrats couldn't sign ? If this was a "Real" democracy than anyone should be able to participate. -- Oblivious , charter member of APIWO ( American Patriot In Word Only ).
How many times did Ray Nagin sign?
He is one of the smarmiest racist SOBs ever had his face on the TV, that punk arse. I wanted to juke him with a yahoo bottle when I heard him say 'Chocolate City', I really did.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL FOOL!
Okay, so he got everybody in his immediate family and most of his facebook friends to sign his recall petition...and what, there's twelve signatures, so where did the other 43 signatures come from?
Let me clue you in: "A full-time Ph.D. student at Southern University"
Should have had no trouble finding 43 out-of-touch wackos there -- just search the university phonebook for professors and filter by who has tenure.
Interestingly enough, the rest of the state has apparently had enough of big government, and likes Bobby. That's always going to be the problem when donks crap where they eat. Cool.
And those 55 signatures included 30 big X's and 3 happy faces.
"And those 55 signatures included 30 big X’s and 3 happy faces."
Written in crayon.