SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Here's a chance to tell your elected officials “You're fired!" without waiting for the next election.
The Illinois Opportunity Project, whose president is Mark Cavers, is helping Republicans put forth a recall provision as a petition-driven constitutional amendment.
“Sen. Barickman and Rep. Batinick have put forward these reforms in legislation, but they haven't even gotten a committee hearing,” Cavers said during an online news conference Tuesday. “So we are taking this issue to the people.”
Batinick, who is from Plainfield, said — unlike California — his proposal would simply use the normal line of succession in the event of a recall.
“So to use it for partisan political purposes would be pretty difficult,” said Batinick, giving an example of the state’s highest office. “You would literally have to have a situation where the lieutenant governor were organizing a campaign against the governor.”
If the proposal gets onto the 2022 ballot and succeeds, it would need signatures from 12% of the voters in that particular race, then the recall election itself would need 60% to pass.
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