Dean Recall Abandoned

Kudos to the GRP for properly describing the effort to recall Democratic State Rep Robert Dean as "unwarranted". They could have gone a lot further, like maybe "mean-spirited, irresponsible, imbecilic" but we have to take what we can get here in West Michigan.

The recall sponsors wasted their money and time, and forced Rev. Dean to waste his money and time, to try to recall him four months before election day, when voters have their bi-annual chance to kick him out. I know that Rev. Dean had a full-time staffer doing nothing but managing his defense against the recall. The state party put money into it and Dean put money into it, which suggests that maybe the whole "recall" was nothing but a head fake to deplete resources from the fall campaign.

Recalls are bad government just like ballot initiatives. They are funded by outside money, captained by single issue zealots and a distraction from the real work of trying to govern.

And what's up with the Press referring to Dean as "Mr."? He's an ordained minister, which usually carries the honorific of Reverend.