George Rebane
Recalling Gov Gavin Nuisance. The 'Recall Newsom 2020', and similar movements, reported last week that they had exceeded the 1.5M signatures needed to put the recall proposition on the ballot of a special election that would be scheduled for sometime this fall. Many thinking Californians and millions across the country agree that Gavin has been a disaster for the state – for openers, bungling the C19 response and exacerbating policies that have accelerated our Great Exodus. Almost everything he touches turns to crap. These signature counts have been reported by NBC (here), FN (here), and Newsweek (here). But that news don’t make no never mind to leftwing columnists like our Union’s George Boardman who confidently reports (here) that only 600K signatures have been collected. Who still says that you can’t have your very own facts to support your own opinions?
[update] A correspondent writes me that, “After two months of elected officials across the country saying that there is no need to verify signatures from the 2020 election, one politician is clinging to this very process to salvage his career. Governor Gavin Newsom of California is now seeking to ensure that all of the signatures collected in the effort to oust him be verified thoroughly. What changed? Is the integrity of one public vote more important than another?”
[17feb21 update] Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk show host, dead at 70. RIP.
Recall Newsom numbers. From the comments below, George Boardman’s quietly outdated number claims are deemed correct by none other than the indominatable Steven Frisch himself. Frisch asserts that Boardman’s couching of “…backers have submitted less (sic) than 600,000 of the 1.5 million valid signatures they need…” makes it clear to readers that to date the signature gatherers are woefully short of the number needed by St Patrick’s Day. What he seems to ignore is that Boardman’s hopeful report was based on cited data collected and validated by 6 January 2021. At that time the statewide cumulative summary consisted of 723,886 signatures received by the SecState, of those 485,650 signatures were put through a validation process, and of those 410,087 signatures or 84.44% were accepted as valid. Over a week ago the various ‘Recall Newsom’ organizations reported that over 1.5M signatures had been collected. If that validation rate holds, then last week’s expected number of valid signatures numbered about 1,266,600.
All this means that a total of at least 1,776,410 signatures need to be collected to meet the 1.5M valid signatures requirement. And I'd bet the ranch that today there are at a minimum several hundred false flag leftwing activists out there filling petitions with invalid signatures.
[18feb21 update] To put a ribbon on my take of Mr Boardman’s column, IMHO he wrote the usual gleeful leftwinger's report of another insipient and pending failure of California’s GOP. To get the desired message across, he cited a grossly dated summary of gathered and validated ‘recall Newsom’ signatures – a very dynamic process, especially in its closing months – that appeared to intend a miscommunication. Believing Boardman’s prognosis, the lightly-read reader of his column would walk away thinking that no way in hell could the Repubs get enough signatures to put the governor’s recall on the ballot. At a minimum, such commentary cum reporting was not valid in any sense of the word.
BTW, the most recent report from the 'recall Newsom' organizations cite collected signatures well above 1.5M, with the intention to bring that total to 2M so as to insure that more than the required 1.4M+change signatures are available for validation by CA's SOS. We shall see.
rebanesruminations.com 
Leave a comment