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How To Recall Mayor Nickels

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Marty,

IMHO Mr.Nickels qualifies for all of these:

For the purposes of this chapter:

(1) "Misfeasance" or "malfeasance" in office means any wrongful conduct that affects, interrupts, or interferes with the performance of official duty;

(a) Additionally, "misfeasance" in office means the performance of a duty in an improper manner; and

(b) Additionally, "malfeasance" in office means the commission of an unlawful act;

(2) "Violation of the oath of office" means the neglect or knowing failure by an elective public officer to perform faithfully a duty imposed by law.
 
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Marty may have a valid point. However, there is another way to attack the problem, and that is to run a pure opposition campaign against Nickles to get him out of office when he comes up for re-election, and then let his successor know "who" did it to Nickles.

Some civil rights leader will probably come up with an idea shortly to connect with GOA and the sports team that is currently being sued by Nickles.
  1. GOA could provides the know-how on how to run the campaign on getting rid of Nickles.
  2. Civil rights people could do the leg-work.
  3. Sports team owner provides the funding, for the simple reason that this person really, really hates Nickles.
If the campaign is successful, the civil rights group could also let Kerlikowske know "who" it was that sliced Nickles up like a piece of baloney, and then suggest that a similar campaign will be waged against him if he wants to keep up the fight.
 
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amlevin wrote:
44Brent wrote:
and then let his successor know "who" did it to Nickles.
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Public disclosure law will let everyone know who is doing it while it happens.
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Let's see, a bunch of people put up a web site that collections names of people who want Nickle's out of office for failing to fix the Alaskan Viaduct. What "public disclosure" forces the people running the web site to ID themselves?

A bunch of people hang out banners across freeway overpasses announcing that Nickles's policies cause "global warming"? What "public disclosure" law forces the people on the freeway's to ID themselves and describe their true agenda?

Answer: there are no such public disclosure, laws, regulations, or processes.
 
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44Brent wrote:
If the campaign is successful, the civil rights group could also let Kerlikowske know "who" it was that sliced Nickles up like a piece of baloney, and then suggest that a similar campaign will be waged against him if he wants to keep up the fight.
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Except for the fact that the chiefs position is a hired position I would love to see it. What it will take to get Kerlikowske out is to get a mayor elected that does not share the same beliefs to running the department as the chief does. This is the main reason chiefs are swapped out.
 
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44Brent wrote:
Let's see, a bunch of people put up a web site that collections names of people who want Nickle's out of office for failing to fix the Alaskan Viaduct. What "public disclosure" forces the people running the web site to ID themselves?

A bunch of people hang out banners across freeway overpasses announcing that Nickles's policies cause "global warming"? What "public disclosure" law forces the people on the freeway's to ID themselves and describe their true agenda?

Answer: there are no such public disclosure, laws, regulations, or processes.
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Refer to your original post where you said:

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  1. Sports team owner provides the funding, for the simple reason that this person really, really hates Nickles.
This definitely IS covered by public disclosure law.

"Those raising or spending over $3,500 must file frequent reports showing the names, addresses, occupations and employers of their contributors, the total amount each has donated and how the funds were spent"

http://www.pdc.wa.gov/home/About/pd_in_wa.aspx

Any campaign to recall Mayor Nickles will take lots of money and effort. Remember most of the "loose pieces" settled in Seattle and love their liberals. Nickels, Sims, McDermott, just to mention a few.
 
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"Those raising or spending over $3,500 must file frequent reports showing the names, addresses, occupations and employers of their contributors, the total amount each has donated and how the funds were spent"
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Amlevin is interpreting the law incorrectly. When the law is read in its full context, it becomes apparent that the law only applies to candidates and political action committees. There's nothing in this law that applies to individual citizens who run opposition campaigns.

A short description of pure opposition campaigns is available at http://www.washingtonceasefire.net/content/view/43/37/1/2/
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Opposition crusades are guerilla warfare with no rules of engagement, no strategies for defense - Few nations have ever discovered how to conduct campaigns against guerilla forces; politicians are pitifully vulnerable to this kind of campaigning because the enemy has no name, no face, like an opposition candidate has. The opposition can have any number of faces. One face can concentrate on digging up dirt on the incumbent and getting it before the public. Another face of the same opposition group, seemingly a completely separate movement, could concentrate on the incumbent's political stand on issues large or small that can be kindled to inflame specific segments of voters. Still another face of our guerilla organization can chip away at another fissure of vulnerability. A group of a few "commando colonels," each with his own little squad of troops could have a wonderful time and drive an incumbent senator or representative crazy - beat him for sure, but also drive him crazy. Opposition organizations are not regulated by the Federal Election Commission. Where their money comes from is nobody's business, nor how it is spent
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[/align][align=left]There is nothing that requires an individual to form a politicial action committee, in order to express opposition to a political candidate.
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