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IFF: Can’t Dump Bad Elected Officials

I got a flurry of excited emails Wednesday morning. The emails announced the ouster of two Colorado state lawmakers who had voted for gun control laws. Colorado Democrats Angela Giron and John Morse were booted from office by voters upset by their disregard for the Constitution. The interesting thing, and the reason I’m writing today, is because had Giron and Morse been in the Idaho Legislature and part of a recall election in our state, they’d remain in office, even though a majority wanted them gone. In the words of Captain Queeg, I kid you not. For Idaho, a majority vote is not enough to throw the bastards out. In fact, the threshold for a recall is so implausible that I doubt Anthony Weiner could be involuntarily removed from office/Wayne Hoffman, Idaho Freedom Foundation. More here.

Question: Would you like to see recall laws loosened?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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