More than 20,000 sign petition to recall socialist Seattle councilwoman who urged Trump protests

[TomCADem]

Source: LA Times

She’s the first socialist elected to the Seattle City Council in 100 years, and she campaigned on a platform that included rent control, a revenue-raising tax on millionaires and a $15-an-hour minimum wage. Now, Kshama Sawant is raising eyebrows well beyond the Northwest.

As of this week, more than 20,000 people — many of them presumably Donald Trump supporters — have signed two Internet petitions demanding her impeachment after Sawant called for disruptive demonstrations at Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.

Sawant, an India-born, second-term council member who was once arrested during a march to support the $15 minimum wage, had told a post-election crowd that Trump is racist and that demonstrators at the inauguration should “shut it down.”

Within days, her office was flooded with “several thousand” calls, emails and texts, many sent by self-declared Trump supporters, Sawant reported.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-seattle-city-council-recall-2016-story.html

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Internet petitions? Could just as likely be a bot as a "Trump Supporter," though I am sure Breitbart is encouraging folks to click the petition.

[pnwmom]

1. I bet most are from outside Seattle, where only 8% voted for Trump.

One petition, started by an ex-con in Southern California, has gathered more than 3,000 signatures in recent weeks. Jameyson MacDonald, a Trump supporter from Whittier, says he started his petition on change.org after reading about Sawant’s call for protests at the inauguration.

[Sunlei]

5. likely change.org needs to change petitions they allow on their website. harrassment petitions that

'pretend' to be impeachment petitions- shouldn't be allowed.

[pressbox69]

11. Certainly.

[DBoon]

13. I bet many are from St. Peterberg

Russia,not Florida

[bucolic_frolic]

2. They want to support Putin's puppet?

It's the oil companies and billionaires. Trump is trying to climb the ladder
by selling off our National Parks and federal lands. A Deal.

[TomCADem]

3. Nothing to Stop Russians from Voting...

...unlike Trump supporters, they would actually be voting in their Nation's interest.

[Sunlei]

4. republicans will target every non republican they can and try to spam/scare them out.

Change phone/email and text address as needed. Prosecute any illegal threats and/or harassment.

[still_one]

6. Just start a counter petition.

[DinahMoeHum]

7. She's been through all this shit before.

Legally, the only thing that can happen is that the petitions will be given to Seattle's mayor, Ed Murray, in hopes that he will take some action.


http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-seattle-city-council-recall-2016-story.html
(snip)
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray. . .has worked with Sawant on a number of legislative initiatives, including tenant rights and the successful effort to set a $15 minimum wage.
(snip)
. . .she’s been through this before, and has weathered the political storm. Three years ago, a petition to oust her for supporting a “special interest group” — poverty-level workers seeking a $15 minimum wage — drew 352 signatures and then faded.
(snip)

As long as the Mayor supports her and as long as her constituents support her, nothing else matters.

[TomCADem]

8. The Internet Poll Here Is Not Even a Petition...

...at least the prior petition actually had Seattle residents signing a petition, rather than anonymous clicks on the internet.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Like I said, as long as her constituents support her. . .

. . .everything else is bullshit.

[SeattleVet]

14. And we do support her.

She seems to be doing a good job on the City Council. She's a good counter to some of the other wishy-washy members.

[brooklynite]

10. I find this as meaningless as some of the online polls progressives advocate

Anyone who can't be bothered to write down and submit an argument in their own words doesn't need to be considered to have "petitioned" anyone about anything.

[Blue Idaho]

12. Internet Petitions? Yeah, that's reliable...

I'll bet there aren't 20,000 people in Seattle that voted for Putin... I mean Trump...

[dhill926]

15. fuck 'em...