After seeing what's going on in California with the (so far) successful effort to recall Gavin Newsom, I became curious about whether or not it could have a domino effect in other states. Apparently, it's not possible in Ohio for State or Federal officials, only on the municipal level, unless the Ohio Constitution is amended via 3/5ths majority rule. Would you support that? I don't really have anything good or bad to say about Mike DeWine but I am in favor of recall elections. I have a hard time thinking of reasons why it's potentially a bad thing. 

Edit: Crap, I meant to post this in Ohio Politics.

Edited February 17, 20214 yr by David

No, recall elections are chaotic and it should be up to the legislature as properly constructed to keep the governor in check or other state officials. Recall's can be done too easily and often times are succeptible to outside interests and outside money funding the effort. Do we really want rich people from California and New York meddling with Ohio politics? they could do this to create the situation they want and force the voters to constantly have to defend. 

 

I do not agree with what is going on in Cali either with Newsom, and I am far from a Newsom fan. 

19 minutes ago, Brutus_buckeye said:

No, recall elections are chaotic and it should be up to the legislature as properly constructed to keep the governor in check or other state officials.

Hmm... That would probably work in a swing state like Ohio but how often does California's state legislature check the governor when Democrats are inevitably a supermajority? 

Edited February 17, 20214 yr by David

15 hours ago, David said:

Hmm... That would probably work in a swing state like Ohio but how often does California's state legislature check the governor when Democrats are inevitably a supermajority? 

Wrong solution for that problem. Fix the damn legislature to be proportionally representative and then it won't be a blank check to the generic Democrat who becomes governor.

What's the typical turnout rate for recall elections? What is the primary motivation for them? It usually seems like they are just politically motivated instead of being focused on the actual job performance of the person in question.

17 hours ago, David said:

Hmm... That would probably work in a swing state like Ohio but how often does California's state legislature check the governor when Democrats are inevitably a supermajority? 

Normally the CA governor is a check on their supermajority in the legislature and the governor tends to be more moderate than the legislators. 

 

With the Newsom recall, just think about all the outside money coming into the state from places like Texas, Florida, New York, etc to try and influence the recall results. While some Californians thought it was a good idea, the liklihood was there were a lot of outside people who thought it was a worthy idea to try now and brought money in from the outside to make it a reality.

 

I remember a few years ago with Marcy's Law. It was sponsored by a rich California billionaire who goes around the country and tries to get this law approved state by state. He runs the petition drives, markets the proposal to get support, and pushes it on a lot of the electorate. He was successful early on but less successful now as he has been exposed. It is not a referendum by people in Ohio who sought to change the Constitution to right a wrong, but rather an outsider who was trying to manipulate things for personal gain.

Do we really want this in Ohio?