Last year St. Petersburg House Democrat Rick Kriseman floated a bill that would allow Floridians, if so inclined, to recall elected officials in the state, beginning with the governor and lieutenant governor, as well as cabinet members and members of the legislature.
In the GOP-controlled Senate and House, however, his proposal went nowhere. He is sponsoring a similar bill this year.
Now a Jacksonville man is trying to his own grass-roots effort to get the conversation started.
Roger Thomas, 65, started an online petition through SignOn.org a week ago, and has collected nearly 20,00 signatures since creating it. MoveOn.org, the progressive political network, sponsors SignOn.org.
In a conversation with CL on Wednesday, the registered Democrat said that years of disgust with government prompted him to create the petition site.
This article appears in Jan 5-11, 2012.