Gone Mild against the Funky recall

I have mixed emotions on this one . . . I'm almost glad to see Dan pro-Funk blogging again because I miss having people to argue with . . . At this point the overwhelming majority of folks are either horribly disappointed with the Mayor or actively want him gone . . . And the accusations from Gone Mild seem kind of weak

"When I noticed her clipboard, I asked her what she was gathering signatures for, and she replied, "For the Mayor."

I told her that I consider myself for the mayor, and she handed me the petition.

Of course, the petition was not "for the mayor", as she claimed, but it was for a recall of the mayor. When I saw that it was one of the recall petitions, I asked her what the legal grounds for recall were. She replied, "Uhh, he's not doing a good job. Folks, those are not legal reasons to recall a Mayor. Telling someone that it is, in an attempt to gain his or her signature, is a form of attempted fraud."

Yikes. Unfortunately, this is the best defense of the Mayor so far and it isn't that good . . . What Gone Mild doesn't mention is the affidavit attached to the petition that someone has to look at BEFORE they sign it which clearly gives the reasons for recall. Picking on some campaign worker making (maybe) 9 bucks an hour isn't exactly the change that Funkhouser supporters trumpeted.

And that's it . . . Petition volunteers and employees refusing to debate with people on the street is not perjury . . . And more importantly, the small minority of Funkhouser loyalists don't even seem too enthusiastic about defending the absentee Mayor who has spent most of his tenure out of town, working on his second job or defending the honor of his co-Mayor wife.