Bullfrog
Ultimate Member
Until some understand the politicians ARE doing their constituents bidding on Maryland gun laws, they're just going to keep pulling their own hair out. Convince me it's not true. Thousands of souls testifying representing 20% of the electorate doesn't move the sticks much. At least that has been what I've witnessed.
The politicians don't care about the constituents, that's why you need to get some kind of recall procedure in place.
I think CrazySanMan has a very good point.
Once a recall mechanism is in place, there may be multiple reasons for people to want to exercise it. There are plenty of anti polititians who have screwed over their constituents in other ways as well. When one pushes a bad bill, a vocal, stirred up minority can use the recall process as a carrot and a stick.
Imagine a group like the PP, with 100 times more numbers, loudly advertising ALL of the ways rep Joe Blow has been bad for his voters, not just on 2A. If you can get a majority to agree he needs to be recalled, it doesn't matter that most of the recall supporters may have been in favor of the anti bill that motivated you in the first place. They are supporting the recall process for their own reasons, which you can include in your pro-recall messaging. The anti bill was just the spark that lit the fuse.
We will never have the #'s in MD to claim a majority, however as 2013 and the PP protests show, we have people motivated to get the message out. A recall process provides leverage.