re: Today is Teedy’s last day on the job.

Great. Although seeing the brain dead former vp celebrating the new mayor doesn’t inspire a lot of optimism.

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Survived a recall election.

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There was never a recall election for Broussard; the group backing a recall never got the required number of voters to sign the petition for the recall election (in Louisiana, it's 1/3 of ALL registered voter in a jurisdiction). You are lucky if you can get 30% participation in an actual election on an assigned date at well-established poll locations; very hard to get a third of registered voters to sign a petition.

There has never been a recall in a Louisiana jurisdiction with more than 25,000 voters.

Louisiana should either base the signature requirement on the number of voters who participated in the election of the official targeted for recall, as many states do. Or, the Legislature could reduce the percentage of total registered voters, possibly to 15 percent, in more heavily populated areas. The states of Georgia and Montana use similar thresholds, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.