GREASING UP THE WHEELS OF A RECALL OF FENTY AND CHEH

[Psycho]

GREASING UP THE WHEELS OF A RECALL OF FENTY AND CHEH

 

 

 

As one travels through wards 4, 5, 7 and 8, meetings are taking place concerning talks of launching a recall of mayor elect Adrian Fenty on numerous grounds but the talk centers now around his biases based upon age and race in the appointment of his cabinet. These meetings are not small but consist of 50, 75 or 100 people and the numbers are slowly growing.

 

Talk of a recall of ward 3 council member elect Mary Cheh is more specific in that a recall will be launched if she commits one of the three following fouls and they are: 1. Vote favorably on any matter that will benefit GWU; 2. Votes favorably on any matter that benefits developers like Akridge, PN Hoffman or others who through their employees contributed to Cheh’s campaign; and 3. If Cheh votes

favorable on the nomination of Linda Jill Singer to be attorney general since Linda Singer was Cheh’s real campaign manager behind the scenes although Anne-Marie Baristow was the front for Singer.

 

No matter how it goes down and it probably will there are already groups meeting and inviting others to join in a recall to take place against Adrian Fenty and Mary Cheh after their first 365 days in office.

 

The people who are talking “Recall” are people who said they in fact voted for these two but now feel they have been duped!

 

This fact should not be ignored by the local media although the Washington Post has reported such already in a story.

 

The following DC law(s) would apply to any recall:

 

 

1100 Commencement of the Recall Process

 

1100.1 In order to commence recall proceedings against an elected official, a registered qualified

elector shall file a notice of intention to recall with the Board in accordance with the provisions of

this chapter and DC Code §11321 (1981).

1100.3 In accordance with the provisions of DC Code §11321© (1981), the Board shall not accept a notice of intention to recall which is filed within the first or last three hundred sixty five (365) days of the term of an elected official, other than a member of an Advisory Neighborhood Commission, or within the same period after a recall election which was decided in the official's

1100.5 A separate notice of intention to recall shall be filed for each officer sought to be recalled.

1100.6 The notice of intention to recall shall contain the following:

(a) The name and title of the elected officer sought to be recalled;

( A statement not more than two hundred (200) words in length, which gives the reasons for the proposed recall;

© The name, telephone number, and residence address of each proposer of the recall;

(d) If the officer was elected to represent a Single Member District, an affidavit that each proposer is a registered qualified elector in the Single Member District of the commissioner whose recall is being sought;

(e) If the officer was elected to represent an election ward, an affidavit stating that each proposer is a registered qualified elector in the election ward of the elected officer whose recall is sought; or

(f) If the officer was elected at-large, an affidavit that each proposer is a registered qualified elector of the District.

1100.7 Upon submission of a notice of intention to recall, the Board shall issue a receipt to the proposer or his or her representative.

1100.8 Within five (5) calendar days of the filing of the notice, the Board shall serve, personally or by certified mail, a copy of the notice of intention on the elected officer sought to be recalled.

1100.9 Within ten (10) calendar days after the filing of the notice of intention, the elected officer sought to be recalled may file with the Board a response in accordance with the provisions of DC Code §11321(d) (1981), a copy of which shall be served on the proposer by the Board.

1100.10 The proposer of a recall measure for any elected officer, other than a member of an Advisory Neighborhood Commission, shall file a financial disclosure statement with the Office of Campaign Finance prior to the submission of a petition supporting the measure for filing.

1100.11 For the purposes of this chapter, the term "financial disclosure statement," in accordance with DC Code §11321(i)(1)(A) (1981), shall consist of the following:

(a) The statement of organization, pursuant to DC Code §11414 (1981); and

( The report(s) of receipts and expenditures, pursuant to DC Code §11416 (1981).

1100.12 For the purposes of this section, the following shall apply to the counting of words in the statement filed by the proposer in the notice of intention to recall pursuant to DC Code §1-1321((1)( and the statement filed by the elected official in response to the notice of intention to recall pursuant to DC Code §1-1321(d)(2):

(a) Punctuation is not counted;

( Each word shall be counted as one (1) word except as specified in this subsection;

© All geographical names shall be considered as one (1) word; for example, "District of Columbia" shall be counted as one (1) word;

(d) Each abbreviation for a word, phrase, or expression shall be counted as one (1) word;

(e) Hyphenated words that appear in any generally available dictionary shall be considered as one (1) word. Each part of all other hyphenated words shall be counted as a separate word;

(f) Dates consisting of a combination of words and digits shall be counted as one (1) word; and

(g) Any number consisting of a digit or digits shall be considered as one (1) word. Any number which is spelled, such as "one", shall be considered as a separate word or words. "One" shall be counted as one (1) word whereas "one hundred" shall be counted as two (2) words. The number one hundred "100" shall be counted as one (1) word.

 

I am confident that recalls will be launched against Fenty and Cheh as the momentum is clearly building and voters are waiting for them to mess up.

 

I think most will agree that we have never before experienced such unhappiness, talks of a recall before candidates have even been sworn in but I think the voters of DC are very upset over many issues and are in no mood to be played with and if any politico messes up and do not deliver on matters like improving our schools by one means or another, tackling crime, improving government services or caving in to the wishes of developers to turn DC into a can of sardines, then none of them will be safe from a recall.