The Recall Newsome folks have collected more than 2 million signatures, by the Wednesday Deadline. Once the county officials verify at least 1.496 million signatures, by April 29th, the recall campaign will be able to be placed on the ballot this fall.

California is just one of 19 states that allow California Voters to remove elected officials, by vote, before the end of their term. No particular reason is required to push for a recall on the ballot, just enough signatures. According to state law, signatures of 12% of voters from the last election in at least 5 counties must be included for a recall election to occur.

Election officials will likely announce in late April if the recall campaign submitted enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot. If it does:

• An election would be held later this year. A date depends on when state officials complete various preliminary steps, but would likely be in the fall.
• Voters would be asked two questions: Do they want to recall Newsom, yes or no? And, if more than 50% of voters say “yes,” who should replace him? 

This is where things get strange. There’s no limit on the number of candidates who can run to replace an official on a recall ballot. And whoever gets the most votes wins, even without a majority, So it’s entirely possible that someone could be elected in a recall while winning less than half the votes.

Thanks to Calmatters.org for the explanation.

Well their at it again! It seems like our legislators in Sacramento didn’t learn from the first round of letting alleged criminals off. Now Sacramento wants to completely remove bail, the same thing that failed horribly during the pandemic. During the outbreak of the pandemic the California Judicial Council mandated ZERO Bail for those arrested for many violent and serious crimes. Carry a gun ZERO BAIL, Deal Dope Zero Bail, etc! By eliminating bail, the legislators are removing a judges discretion to set bail based on criminal history and ties to the community.

The new bill being proposed now (Senate Bill 262), will completely ZERO Bail and ZERO Accountability. So regardless of the defendants criminal history or danger to the public, all defendants will be released without bail. Bail has received a bad rap in recent years, people don’t understand that bail is important as a guarantee. What bail does is it acts as an insurance policy that the criminal defendant will return to court. If the criminal defendant doesn’t appear in court, the responsibility falls on the shoulders of the bail bondsman, to get them back. If the bail bondsman doesn’t get the criminal defendant back to court, than they (the bondsman) is financially responsible. As you can see, there is a very good reason for bail bondsman to do everything in their power to get criminal defendants back to court, in the time allowed.

Senate Bill 262 is not only dangerous to the community it is all insensitive to the those victims who want justice.

If you wish to show your support in stopping this naive and dangwrous bill, please visit SAFER COMMUNITIES at safercommunities.quorum.us. Their website will better inform you on the status of the bill

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