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More on Assbag McMayor
Well, now the Daily News has a slideshow of pictures of our esteemed mayor SITTING OUTSIDE AN EFFIN CELL PHONE STORE TO BUY A FRIGGIN IPHONE AS THE CITY DIES AROUND HIM. All of which got me thinking: Hey, how would we go about impeaching a mayor if, say, one would be so bold as to spend his friggin work day sitting outside an effin cell phone store to buy a friggin iphone as the city dies around him.
Here's what I learned from the city's Web site which, I'm sure, will look great on the mayor's new iphone:
Section 9-101
Recall Procedure.
- A recall of an incumbent of an elective office shall be initiated upon petition signed by registered electors. In the case of an elective office to which a candidate is elected from the City at large, the petition shall contain signatures equal in number to at least twenty-five percent of the vote cast for the office of Mayor at the last preceding mayoralty election but signatures from any one ward in excess of one-fifth of the total number required on a petition shall not be counted. In the case of an elective office to which a candidate is elected from a district of the City, the petition shall contain signatures of registered electors in the district equal in number to at least twenty-five percent of the vote cast for the office at the last election. Every recall petition shall name the officer against whom it is directed.
- Each elector signing a recall petition shall add to his signature his occupation, his residence, stating the ward, and the date of signing. Signatures on a recall petition may be on separate sheets but each sheet shall have appended to it the affidavit of some person, not necessarily a signer of the petition, that to the best of the affiant's knowledge and belief the persons whose signatures appear on the sheet are registered electors of the City, or of the district, as the case may be, that they signed with full knowledge of the contents of the petition, and that their residences are correctly given.
- A recall petition shall be tendered for filing to the board of elections having jurisdiction over elections in the City. Such board shall examine it to see whether it contains a sufficient number of apparently genuine signatures. The board may question the genuineness of any signature or signatures appearing on the recall petition and if it shall find that any such signature or signatures are not genuine, it shall disregard them in determining whether the petition contains a sufficient number of signatures. It shall also disregard any signature dated more than sixty days before the date the petition was tendered for filing. The board shall eliminate any sheet of the petition which is not accompanied by the required affidavit. The invalidity of any sheet of the petition shall not affect the validity of the petition if a sufficient number of signatures remains after eliminating such an invalid sheet. The board shall complete its examination of the petition within fifteen days and shall thereupon file the petition if valid or reject it if invalid.
Seriously. It might be a little bit of the hangover's blame, but I'm sickened by this. Physically.
You are a disgrace, Mayor Street. An utter disgrace.
UPDATE: Anybody want to recall the mayor? We got till Sunday to get the petitions together!!!
No recall petition shall be filed against any incumbent of an elective office within the first year or the last six months of the term of his office or within six months after an unsuccessful recall election against him but an officer who has been reelected for a successive term shall be subject to recall also during the first year of such term.
I already tried that. The recall in the city of Philadelphia and in the state of PA was declared unconstitutional in 1976 when the citizens of Philadelphia tried to recall Mayor Frank Rizzo. The PA Supreme Court made the decision.
I agree, the man should be recalled, or at least impeached. I’ve been saying that since AT LEAST 2004!
[...] DN: BREAKING NEWS SLIDESHOW OF SHAME! Related: The Clog: It’s Not Too Late For A Recall, You Know [...]
I would sign that in a heartbeat, but there’s no point, that assclown is going to be out of office soon, and I can’t fucking wait.