News Port Watch
posted by on May 9 at 7:31 AM
Good government activist Chris Clifford’s recall petition against Port Commissioner Pat Davis has been approved by the elections commission and is now live in KC Superior Court. A hearing where Davis must defend herself is required within the next 15 days.
If the Judge rules in favor of Clifford it means he can go forward and collect signatures to put a recall measure on the ballot. Clifford, my favorite Republican, needs to get 25% of the total votes cast in Davis’s last election. That means he’ll need about 106,000 signatures.
He should gather them at the airport parking garage skybridges. Her voice welcoming people to SeaTac alone is enough to compel people to sign.
I hope you don't have very many favorite Republicans.
that's a lot of fucking signatures. let's hope that his being a republican means he's wealthy, cause you're not going to pull that off, even on a volunteer basis, unless you have some real $.
Correction: he only needs 105,999, because mine's going on it as soon I can get to it.
Has somebody ruled on the 25% vs 35% questions?
@4 - you mean 105,998. Me too.
Not that I have any favorite Reds.
Here are the rules on # of signatures.
I read it this morning thinking Davis qualified as a County Officer... the Port is elected County wide. But I could have that wrong. Davis could fall under item (2)... which means Clifford needs 35% of voters in her last election...which ups the required signature count to about 148,000.
(1) In the case of a state officer, an officer of a city of the first class, a member of a school board in a city of the first class, or a county officer of a county with a population of forty thousand or more -- signatures of legal voters equal to twenty-five percent of the total number of votes cast for all candidates for the office to which the officer whose recall is demanded was elected at the preceding election.
(2) In the case of an officer of any political subdivision, city, town, township, precinct, or school district other than those mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, and in the case of a state senator or representative -- signatures of legal voters equal to thirty-five percent of the total number of votes cast for all candidates for the office to which the officer whose recall is demanded was elected at the preceding election.
Port Commissioners are not county officials. In the case of the Port of Seattle and King County, the two jurisdictions share identical boundaries, but they are not the same unit of government.
Worth an argument, though.
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