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by James Buchanan

The John and Ken radio show, which covers the state of California from powerful radio stations in Los Angeles and San Francisco, was fighting a massive tax increase earlier this year. The Republicans in the California legislature had taken a “no new taxes” pledge so it should have been an easy matter to block a two-thirds vote for the most massive tax increase for a state in US history. Four Republicans broke ranks and voted for the tax increase. One of those Republican turn coats was Anthony Adams.

Shortly after this vote, the John and Ken Show discovered that a secret deal was made. The leadership of the Republican Party in California made a deal to give the Democrats just enough votes to pass their tax increase. The Republican leadership also promised to SUPPORT the Republicans, who voted for the tax increase (not to condemn them or call them out for betraying their “no tax increase” pledge).

The people trying to recall Anthony Adams collected 60,000 signatures using a professional signature collecting firm that would only get paid if 70 percent of the signatures were valid. The firm had a good track record from other signature collecting work they had done. Only 35,825 signatures were needed for the recall. The people organizing the recall did an internal check of the signatures and found that 71 percent were valid.

The state bureaucracy announced shortly after getting the signatures that a “sample” collection of 1,800 signatures had produced only a 41 percent validity rate and that the recall effort had failed. Statistically, this would be about the equivalent of getting hit by a meteor and winning the lottery on the same day.

In a preliminary review on Monday, the “recall Adams” organization looked at 40 rejected signatures and found that 25 of them should have been valid. As part of the signature collecting effort, the signature collectors would have had many people fill out voter registration forms since only registered voters can sign. This is a completely acceptable procedure that has been done with other recall efforts, but there’s a danger of a crooked bureaucrat not entering the voter registrations into the state database before checking the validity of the signatures.

Curiously, the signature validity rate in Los Angeles County was 64 percent and the signature validity rate in San Bernardino County was a mere 35 percent.

At the very least, state bureaucrats were NOT adding the registration cards, in a cheap attempt to stop a recall effort against a pro-tax politician. It would be interesting to know if any illegal conspiracy took place to accomplish this.

One additional anomaly that has been revealed is that every duplicate signature found is penalized by a factor of 1,200 so just a few duplicate signatures in the sample that the state looks at, could cause the recall effort to be thrown out. Out of 1,839 signatures in the sample, there were six duplicate signatures found.

It seems fairly obvious that the state bureaucracy does not want this recall effort to succeed. If the voter registration card issue is resolved fairly, the recall effort should have more than enough votes to succeed. The big issue now is how long will the state bureaucracy drag this out. Because of Thanksgiving, the issue won’t be resolved this week. It’s a little frustrating that we can’t be celebrating what-should-be a great populist victory along with our turkey dinners.

Some pathological pessimists might remark that this was all pointless, but they are 100 percent wrong. The average American needs to be educated about what a pack of crooks we have in government. They also need to know how fraudulent vote counting can be. This whole effort has drawn attention to the Republican leadership making a dirty deal to stab taxpayers in the back, and a recall effort that had a 71 percent valid signature rate when checked by the private sector, which suddenly dropped to a 41 percent after government hacks get involved.

Anthony Adams’ political career is over regardless of how the Recall effort turns out. He’s viewed as a lying sack of crap by everyone in the state of California. If he isn’t dragged out of office by a recall election, he’ll lose the Republican primary to anyone with a pulse who runs against him. The exposure of political corruption and the way the two-party system literally conspires against our best interests is priceless.