Conservative Tea Party activists seek to oust Sen. Robert Menendez from office
By The Associated Press
February 05, 2010, 12:34PM
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TRENTON — A coalition of conservative activists wants to throw New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez out of office.
Members of the Tea Party movement have sued in New Jersey Superior Court asking to be allowed to start collecting the 1.3 million voter signatures it needs to get a recall on the ballot.
The Sussex County group takes issue with Menendez's support of health care reform and his opposition to limiting government's control.
Their lawyer, Dan Silberstein, said the group went to court after the Secretary of State failed to certify their petition.
The Secretary of State's office referred questions to the Attorney General, which didn't immediately respond to a call seeking comment.
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee lawyer Mark Elias said there is no right to recall congressmen or senators under the Constitution.
BOOOO HOOOO, We don't like Senator Menendez and his supporting healthcare for all. Waaa waaaaa!
Sen. Menendez is up for reelection in 2012 but the teabaggers want him out now, WTF??? Is this what we in the USA are going to be subjected to from now on? Teabaggers not happy with their states lawfully elected leaders so they will sue to petition a recall to remove them from office, JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THEM??? Come on NJ, be the first to stand up for the voters in this country to speak, we don't need a minority movement of teabaggers to speak for us! If those people don't want to vote for Menendez in 2012 then that is their right, but NJ will be damned if they think they can remove our Senator now!
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Yep, this is what they are going to do.. It's their way.. they yell about how Pres. Obama is destroying the Constitution, yet they want to completely rewrite it to say and do what they want it too.. Again bunch of hypocritical assholes.
Of course the Tea Baggers want him out...Menendez is guilty of being Hispanic.
Tom Tancredo could come here and campaign for whatever gutless Nativist chicken hawk the Baggies decide to run against Menendez.
And Caribou Barbie could show up and see how many suckers in New Jersey will dish out big bucks for her to wink and whisper sweet nothings...with nothings being the operative word.
PT Barnum once said "Americans love a humbug". One hundred years have passed and old PT is as right about things today as he was in his own era.
Huh? They want the Secretary of State to certify a petition to gather signatures to do something unconstitutional? To what end? Sounds like a clear-cut case of wasting money.
Some rightwinger came to my blog whining about taking back "OUR WHITE HOUSE."
I reminded the commenter that that the American people, less than a year and a half ago put Mr. Obama in OUR WHITE HOUSE.
It's difficult for me to regard these people as anything other than whining little mewlers who throw hissy fits every time Mr. Obama asserts his Constitutional powers.
We must remind them every chance we get that they are extremists and are NOT mainstream.
And after that pathetic performance by Palin this weekend, they have a lot more to whine about than Mr. Obama.
Suppose the voters DO speak and you don't like what they say? Is that OK?
(BTW: We aren't "teabaggers," as "teabagging" is a slang term for the act of a man placing his scrotum in the mouth or on or around the face of another person. We don't do that.)
Liberals always demonstrate their belief in "tolerance" by twisting the other side's names or by calling them names, having not the intellegence to address them on the basis of facts. "Pro-lifers," for instance, are referred to as "anti-abortionists."
That would be like me insisting that you be called, "Alice," even though your name is "Sue."
OK guys, lots of good comments on a day I'm not gonna be on here til later in the evening. I want to say a few things now tho. I don't care if Menendez is a great or a terrible Senator, he was elected by the majority of NJ voters and has a constitutional right to fulfill his obligation to serve out his term and serve the people. "The Tea Party" coming in and trying to oust a sitting Senator just because they don't like what he stands for is unconstitutional and un American. If this practice continues around the country like in NJ and California I fear for our country and our rights. These teabaggers are overstepping and I hope the people rise up and DESTROY them!!
Joe I have no respect for a movement whose platform is to destroy our country. Our laws and our Constitution mean nothing to the teabaggers, they have a plan and God help us if they are allowed to follow through with it!
Hmmm. That's a patently false sweeping statement. I am a Tea Party person who has deep respect for our constitution and the law of the land. In fact, I wish we would follow it more closely.
How does that square with your statement that somehow the Tea Party movement does not respect the constitution?
Our plan is to make government less intrusive in the lives of citizens. How does that threaten the country?
why would the tea party seek to oust a sitting Senator just because they don't like their views? That is unconstitutional, is it not? I find it arrogant and appalling that they think their movement can do such things. Campaigning and voting for a certain candidate for office is how you change state government if you disagree with it. What make tea party people think they have more leverage than ordinary citizens?
And they're the ones always talking about the Constitution, which they know nothing about whatsoever - obviously. Even if they succeed, which I doubt, it'll be a Supreme Court case waiting to happen. That might not be so good either, for that matter.
Joe: "(BTW: We aren't "teabaggers," as "teabagging" is a slang term for the act of a man placing his scrotum in the mouth or on or around the face of another person."
The Tea Baggers, Teabaggers, etc., are the ones who started calling themselves that - until it was revealed to them what it means.
"That is unconstitutional, is it not?"
What Article and Section of the Constitution does that violate?
If a person of either Party has been elected by illegal means (such a ballot stuffing, coersion, voter corruption or the like), if that person has committed an impeachable offense under the law, or if there is any one of a number of other causes that would be reason for someone to seek to have them removed from office, then a lawsuit might well be in order.
I agree with you that if all the elected official has done is to implement policies with which some group (Tea Party folks or others) disagree, then it would not be appropriate to seek his/her removal.
That being said, a law suit does not remove anybody unless it is won. If it is not won, then the people filing the suit are shown to have been wrong. If it is won, they would have been shown to have been correct.
I would not fear a lawsuit against a conservative who is accused of something illegal while getting elected or while in office, and I can't understand why anyone else would be afraid of a lawsuit against "their guy."
Lawsuits exist to determine the legal status of something in question.
Is there something in Menendez's behavior that might cause people to think something illegal has taken place?
tnlb: If that were so, what difference would it make? If you call yourself a name whose definition you don't know, does that give me the right to refer to you by that name, too?
BTW: I know a great deal about the Constitution, having studied it extensively. Would you like to go head-to-head on it? You'd be better off trying some other tack.
lisa stop putting those disgusting links on my blog, nobody is interested in that trash
apparently that's what it is Joe, they don't like the fact he supports the HC reform and Obamas policies. We'll see if more comes out on the 26th.
Sue, just a reminder that the term teabagger is one that the tea party movement, ignorant of its meaning, took upon themselves. If only they were willing to learn from their other mistakes...
Well shut my mouth. I've always called them Tea Buggers myself.
I'm so tired of this whole crowd! I watched Tom Tancredo's speech a few days ago and I just about lost my mind - really? This passes for enlightened, common-sense conservatism nowadays?!?
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