First Gray Davis recalled. Now it's time to recall "Murphy's Law" in SD!

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Murphy's Law:

Definition:
"Anything that can possibly go wrong, will go wrong."

That seems to describe perfectly what is happening down here in San Diego under Dick Murphy, who officials say has been reelected, even if most votes did not (Donna Frye didn't have all of hers counted).

With the latest news coming out with the pension nightmares, it is becoming obvious, even to many Republicans here, that the ship isn't being steered properly, and that Murphy's Law is going to sink it soon if we don't right it.

There's a recall Murphy news group that's starting to get many more members on it now, ever since a week ago when Murphy was named one of the three worst mayors in the U.S. Much of the local press has been noticing this and picking up this story this last week:

Newsgroup:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RecallMayorDickMurphy/

Some local news articles on this:

http://www.10news.com/politics/4393229/detail.html

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050424-9999-1n24murphy.html

Interesting comment from columnist Richard Rider on this here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RecallMayorDickMurphy/message/103

that notes that city of San Francisco pensions are actually *LOWER* than San Diego's, which is why the city is in so much trouble at this point. How did it get this way in a more Republican dominated city than SF?

This is explained that SF's pension terms were voted on by local propositions, instead of San Diego's methods that were by only people proposing, reviewing, and changing the terms of the pensions being the labor leaders themselves and those sitting on the council, *ALL* who were direct beneficiaries of such legislation. Therefore this made it so that there wasn't anyone involved in those decisions that had to wind up paying for it (city residents) that weren't pension beneficiaries. This is why folks like Donna Frye were trying to put out an "open government" proposition here in the last election, to prevent this very sort of stuff.

Anyway, let's end "Murphy's Law" here! Those of you around here be ready in June or July when the petition drives are allowed to start to sign this recall petition. It will take over 100,000 signatures to get it on the ballot.

Though Donna Frye didn't say she'd "support" a recall effort, that she'd be there as a candidate if one were to be on the ballot. Time to clean up city hall!

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1. Sent the links to my SD family.

My sister volunteered for Frye.

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2. Are you a prophet calipendence?

24 hours later Murphy resigns. Guess he gave into the pressure, the writing was on the wall (and in the press) peace. :)

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3. No, but I'd like to think I helped influence him to do so...

I was one of a few hundred folk that had signed onto the Yahoo recall user group that started to grow quite a bit after the Time Magazine article and local press coverage. Perhaps the press coverage as well as seeing many of us at the grass roots speaking up there and starting the recall campaign sent the writing on the wall to Murphy. At least I'd like to think I helped to fix things. Still too early yet to see whether we'll actually "fix things" yet. All depends on who takes over and how that person works with the city council to clean things up here.