Here’s the latest update from the failed but still noisy Recall Polis 2.0 campaign this weekend, doing their best to keep the disappointed faithful on board, despite turning in zero signatures to the Secretary of State by the November 13 deadline which (checks today’s date) expired over a month ago:
Although it’s impossible to know if even the number organizers claim above is accurate, this is the first time we’ve seen an estimate from the Recall Polis 2.0 campaign other than the wildly inflated “progress meter” graphics they posted during the 60-day collection period which suggested back in September they already had over 200,000 signatures. For comparison, and again there’s no way to verify any of this because none of the signatures from either campaign were ever turned in for validation, the “Recall Polis 1.0” campaign claimed to have collected “over 300,000” signatures in 2019–still 50% short of the minimum goal. That means even if we accept these numbers at face value, Recall Polis 2.0 collected 100,000 fewer signatures than the first failed attempt, less than one third of what was minimally needed.
With all of this in mind, the idea that a court should grant this campaign any kind of relief or extension when they haven’t come close to meeting the standard is preposterous. At this point, any Republican with an ounce of political sense remaining should see that every dollar and man-hour devoted to this lost cause is wasted. The repeated failure of recall attempts against both Gov. Jared Polis and various Democratic legislatures since 2018 have made a running joke of the recall process in this state, and this latest refusal to accept obvious failure is just making it worse.
Then again…Donald Trump! If no Republican ever admits to losing again, this discussion could be moot. Fortunately, the rest of us have elections and courts and, you know, reality.
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KEEP THE FAITH! DON’T GIVE UP!! (two more times and your failure will be statistically significant).
Those are rookie numbers in the GOP racket. You have to fail something like–checks status of Trump lawsuits–38 times just to be sure you're not winning.
Marc Elias, counting each post-election claim filed with a court only once, says the Trump & Co. record is now it’s 1-59 …
Local election official said 9; law said 6; court agreed with the law.
"a conservative governor with the citizens' best interests at heart is elected……."
Guess that rules out Patrick Neville, Dave Williams, Ken Buck, any politician from Weld County, and Lauren Boebert.
Maybe these wackos need to take some lessons, on how to be elected, from the only Republican to be elected governor here in the past 46 years. But I doubt Bill Owens wants anything to do with these incompetents.
There's always Bob Beauprez to give it another trot around the track.
"valid" signatures are not the same as "accepted by the SoS" signatures.
I'm sure the Recall Polis organizers are simply biding their time until after Trump is sworn in next month for his second term. Then it's just a matter of him declaring that Governor Polis is hereby removed from office, effective immediately.
Who needs to bother with messy recall petitions when you have God-Emperor Trump lighting the way?
They might want to start with a new name and a new party.
Opinion | Should NeverTrump Conservatives Form A New Party? – The New York Times (nytimes.com)