The Bolsavik was forwarded the email that follows, purportedly from the San Jose City Clerk Lee Price, detailing the next steps after people seeking the recall of Councilwoman Madison Nguyen (pictured) turned in more than 5000 signatures. The Bolsavik hasn’t verified it, but it seems legitimate enough.
Anyway, according to this letter, it’s now too late for Madison Nguyen’s camp to try to get people to retract; apparently the deadline to retract was 5pm the day the petition was turned in.
Also, it seems that if the City Clerk’s Office certifies the petition as insufficient, that decision cannot be challenged — but the email says nothing about appealing a certification of the petition as sufficient.
Full text of the email follows after the jump. The “ROV” in the letter is short for Registrar of Voters. The verification must be done by the ROV because the signatures must be of registered voters in Madison Nguyen’s district.
From: Price, Lee
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 2:46 PM
To: #CityCouncil_PO; #MayorPO; Figone, Debra; Doyle, Richard; Attard, Barbara; Mavrogenes, Harry; Erickson, Sharon
Cc: #CityClerkPO
Subject: Recall Petition Filed; Next Steps
On Friday, August 30th, the proponents of the recall effort filed their petition. On prima facie review, we determined that the petition has approx 5,181 signatures (raw count); which exceeds the required number of qualified signatures needed (3,162). Tomorrow morning Dennis and I will take the petition to the County ROV for verification. The process, under State law, will be as follows:
1) The ROV has 30 days from the date of the filing of the petition, excluding weekends and holidays, to determine if the petition is sufficient or insufficient.
2) The ROV will conduct a random, statistical sampling for verification of signatures. The random sample of signatures to be verified will be conducted using the ROV’s trusted computerized program. The random sampling will incude an examination of 500 signatures (the law specifies 5% or 500 whichever is greater). Requests to withdraw received and on file in my office as of 5:00 p.m. the day before the petition was submitted will be verified, factored in and honored (there were 147 received).
3) If the statistical sampling shows that the number of valid signatures is greater than 110 percent of the required number (3,162), the petition will be certified sufficient. In that case, Council action to call a special election will be required within 14 days of the date the ROV certifies the petition to be sufficient.
4) If the statistical sampling shows that the number of valid signatures is within 90 to 110 percent of the number of signatures of qualified voters needed to declare the petition sufficient, the ROV will be obligated to examine and verify each signature filed. If the number verified is greater than 3,162, then the petition will be deemed sufficient. If the number is less than 3,162, then the petition will be certified as insufficient.
5) If the statistical sampling shows that the number of valid signatures is less than 90 percent of the required number, the ROV shall certify the petition to be insufficient.
6) If the petition is certified insufficient, there is no challenge process available to the proponents.
I will continue to keep the Mayor/Council and Council Appointees apprised of the status of the petition verfication process. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Lee Price, MMC
City Clerk
City of San Jose
200 East Santa Clara Street – Wing 2nd Floor
San Jose, CA 95113
(408) 535-1252
(408) 292-6207 (FAX)
lee.price@sanjoseca.gov
plop*
Don’t bite me, poop!
Grow up bottom feeders/garbage recyclers.
Well, you start talk “poop” first, why grow up homosexual?
Over bite is having a tough pregnancy this time….. who is your big daddy?
Dung “poop” Kim, It’s o.k to be a homosexual, just come out the closet so I can see your ugly face someone wanna be kim-chi poop…
I can’t muster up any sympathy for Dung “poop” Kim, regardless of her abusive past. She is rude, and a bully. Take charge of your life, and quit being an a**
Over bite, do you have morning sickness yet? Ask your big daddy for more bananas with milk. Can you give me a happy chimp barking sound now?
Over bite, your condition is a genetic defect and we do have sympathy over your ugly appearances but still you need to be lock up in the SA zoo.
POOP, POOP, POOP….
dung kim poop is a woman? i didnt know that.
Bite me,
That stuff comes from my you know what. So, you must be my poop coming out of my !@%&. Good job.
Jose “S” rhymes with “it” to make himself smelled. Janet Nguyen and Andrew the Do Do must be feeding Jose a lot of pigeon food. Just don’t feed Jose at the park in Santa Ana. Too much pollution on the cement already.
Why don’t you swallow your own poop.
dung kim poop*, please leave the comedy to those of us who are funny. i know it must be hard for you. i do like your new name it fits you.
Like I said,
Dung Kim, NO I MEAN Poop Kim is confused, it doesn’t know for sure either to be a man or woman, or keep changing names. Well, i guess that’s how homosexual do in the closet and don’t want to come out.
Over bite, what is your interest in closet? Oh, chimps don’t get to have own closet in the zoo. Do you see the tip of your baby chimp.. between your legs yet? Well, be patient!
jose s. since when human waste has become a great interest in your life?
Over bite, be sure to check your baby chimp’s sex……….do you know how?
Only confused here is Janet and Do Do….. will they get together in honeymoon one day?
Dung “poop” Kim,
I remember last time I chek my baby it was your mama, after all we are relate together, why you treat me so bad, “Dich Me”
Over bite, then why is it you sound like a retarded chimp from failing ESL class?
Dung “poop” Kim,
Uuh common my child don’t be so hard on my ESL.
I was right, you are a homosexual.
Over bite, learn the proper language skills first before flapping dark mutated mouth pieces in the clean air.
Dung “poop” Kim is a homosexual…
Andrew Dont dont seem to be doing anything in the community other than talkin smack on radio. I mean where is he at community events? Where is he at the city council meetings? The guys a non issue. Bu then again so is Lin Ho and Trung.
I think the Vietnamese Community might want to look at the other candidates and see which 0ne is the Next Margie Rice, Frank Fry, Bruce Broadwater, Lou Correa, and Loretta Sanchez. Because it is obvioulsy not any one of these candidates.
Confused, I think Trung Nguyen is the best choice.
Andrew Do is the worst one next to Janet.
confused viet, thats the problem with the viet politicians in this area none of them are worth a damn. NONE OF THEM. and dung poop kim*, trung nguyen?! you really are an idiot.
Jose (S) that rhymes with Hit,
May be you should run for dog catcher and see if you can even win that seat, while getting crap rubbed all over your face.
All you Viet losers, inlcuding you Jose, who don’t even vote, love those Mexican Sanchez and Correa who haven’t really done jack for the Viet community other than to wear the long fress during Tet and say “kin ciao qui vy”. Please go worship those tacos while I slurp on my fish sauce.
You are just a bunch of self haters who deny your own heritage. Why don’t you throw your name in the ring and let us beat the shit out of you and see how you feel? Viet power all the way, man!
I ain’t Trung and I defintely ain’t Jung Kim. You just need to get your ass kicked to get some pride in your own community other than kow towing to those cholos.
Confused Viet,
Just stop eating chips and salsa and try some banh cuon. You sounded more stupid than confused. Get some rice in your stomach and start speaking Vietnamese.
Confused, Jose, and Bite,
Act like a cow and eat some of your own stuff. May be you will know where you come from instead of dividing your own community. Look yourself in the mirror and ask this question: What have you done to build and empower your Viet community? Obviously nothing. So haul some ass instead of sitting on it and bitch.
wow those were pretty racist comments there dung kim poop* so when you say “viet power all the way man!” is that like white power or something? are you a racist viet supremist?
Be soft to each other for some day we may have to stand side by side in a demonstration to protest against the real Viet Cong in a grand opening ceremony of Viet Cong Consulate somewhere in Los Angeles!
tien huynh, dont count on it. one thing i know for a fact is most of the viet-american community will do nothing to combat the real communists in our community. take a drive down moran street and see what happens when people dont take a stand against real communists. this to me is the true shame of the viet-american community.
proud-dung “sh!t” are a homosexual…
So since when a homosexual care about politics.
jose.s needs a major improvement in mental development department……..lacking in almost everything related to normal human’s capacity.
Pure trash …worth much less than street dog’s waste.
Yes jose s, most of them just fight each other. The funniest thing about it is that they brand their fight as “fighting V communists” to get money & support from people and special interests (VC is one of them here). The tactics are same old things. Put communists hat on someone on the other side, most likely, the leaders and claim that they are working for VC… Although it is old but very effective. VC is behind this strategy. It doesn’t cost them a lot to do this to fight those who are against them here.
I have never seen any protest against real VC that could gather 10,000 people as Barry Hung Do boasted when he & his org did that at San Jose City Hall. Oh, by the way, they did fight for real VC because Chuck Reed and Madison Nguyen “could have worked” for VC
What happened to those “leaders” in San Jose when people really need a protest which could gather that many people for things happening in VN right now such as Thai Ha diocese, suppressing & arresting 8406′s members, jailing “Dieu Cay” for 30 months, China claiming Paracel & Spratly islands as theirs based on illegal agreement by Pham Van Dong…
Viet Congs have succeed in exhausting the Viet communities’ energy by stupid nonsense infightings. The Viet refugees now do not have any energy (both mental and physical) left for other worthy causes!
Sun will rise tomorrow and we shall have new hope again!
dung kim poop*, you seem angry why? is being a filthy little communist finally getting to you?
Jose S,
Viet Power! Get used to it. We are taking over Orange County. Viet Power!
Jose S. aka Bite Me,
Get the hell out of Little Saigon and stay in Santa Ana, man! We don’t want you.
Bucnh of losers. Go play with Janet Nguyen and Andrew Do in Santa Ana, losers!!
proud viet, i know you are dung kim poop* and as ive said before: i cant stand the communist janet nguyen and all of the viet-american elected officials who pander to the communists in our community. why? because they themselves are communists. and so are you.
Little Saigon in Santa Ana is a gheto place, only loser like Viet Power punk hang out around there.
Over bite makes poor representation of Viet community…..send him over to Janet’s SA office!
RECALL MADISON NGUYEN, NOW…..
Send Over bite to the SA Zoo.
Madison will slap your rear end five times before feeding you the semi decomposed banana.
RECALL MADISON NGUYEN, NOW……