Shouldn't any story on this supposed movement include the fact that there is no legal method to remove a federal elected official via recall.

The Supreme Court of the United States has held long ago that States are unable to add qualifications or change the term of federally elected officials.

New Jersey law provides for a recall vote for anyone who has been in office for at least one year, but even if that happens and every vote in the recall election supports the recall of a federally elected official, the vote has no legal force or effect.

Senator Menendez was elected for a term that ends on 3 January 2013. He will serve that term unless he dies, resigns, or is expelled by the U.S. Senate, the desires of a tea party group notwithstanding.

Any story about this group should include the fact that a recall vote for a federally elected position has no legal force or effect.

Before you post Jason you should get your facts straight before you posted incorrect information. Basically you are an un-informed idiot!

New Jersey
All
25% of the registered voters in the electoral district of the official sought to be recalled
Governor or U.S. Senator: 320 days

http://www.ncsl.org/LegislaturesElections/ElectionsCampaigns/RecallofStateOfficials/tabid/16581/Default.aspx

You mean like the way this site recalled its $1800.00 membership fee? ROTFL, What on Earth were you folks thinking???

Are they drinking tea or something else?

The crybaby teabaggers don't like menendez. boo-hoo. so, these champions of decreased government spending plan on forcing an additional statewide election to remove a sitting senator? are they going to fund it themselves or will the money come from their lobbyists, or from (gasp) the taxpayers? so much for decreased spending. sound and fury, signifying nothing.

I understand "The gang that couldn't campaign straight" in WNY may be in charge of gathering Recall signatures against you.

Can you imagine The Roque foray getting over a MillioN signatures?

(don't you wish from time to time there was something a bit more emphatic than LOL?)

are without question the most well thought-out, logical organization that this country has produced. Recall a sitting US Senator? Genius! I tells ya! I await with baited breath their next masterstroke to remake the country in their image. All hail our teabagging overlords!

Boy their description of Menendez's discretions could have described anyone of the Republicans Senators under Bush with all the pork spending and they way they took the country from surpluses to deficits !
These teabaggers carry American flags and proclaim themselves patriots when they don't know the first thing about representative government. They have a chance every 6 years to get rid of Menendez, it's called an election. You win some , you lose some. But you don't throw the person out who won only because your person didn't !
But then again that is what these poor souls are learning from their GODS Beck, Limbaugh, and Fox News who have spent Obama's (and Clinton's ) terms trying to de-legitimatize them.
I still go with what Franklin said, "Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels".

While I am not a member of the Tea Baggers, I share some of their political views (none of which have anything to do with Gush Windbag or Sure Insanity or Gloom Bonk). These folks are simply exercising their right to find out if their sympathies are shared by enough people to merit the removal of duly elected Senator. The purpose of the recall is to allow the very thing that some of you think is silly: having a second bite at the apple . . . AFTER a period of time has elapsed where the electee has had time to prove/disprove himself/herself. It is a very good idea to allow people to remove bad representatives during their term if the job they are doing is so bad that continuance in office for the duration of the term will be damaging to the interests of the electorate.

Elected representatives should always feel that their jobs are in jeopardy if they betray their oaths of office and/or fail to adequately/faithfully represent their constituents. The recall is the imperfect vehicle, as it allows a new election if and only if the petitioners can secure a large number of signatures. I'd reduce the number required to 25% + 1 of the number of voters who voted in the last election, not of the total registered voters. It should be easier to remove wastrels like Menendez . . . he has violated his oath of office by failing to support and defend the US Constitution and should be removed . . . just like George Bush should have been removed, and for some of the same reasons . . . like treating the US Constitution like a " . . . mere piece of paper".

"he has violated his oath of office by failing to support and defend the US Constitution and should be removed . . . just like George Bush should have been removed, and for some of the same reasons . . . like treating the US Constitution like a " . . . mere piece of paper"."

That's silly. Menendez hasn't violated his oath more than Lautenbeg, or any other Congresscritter. In fact, if you want to make a big deal about the Constitution, Senators were not even supposed to be popularly elected. They were originally appointed by respective legislators and given six year terms precisely so they wouldn't be susceptible to popular whims.

If anything the pbaggers are proof the founders were right in their suspicions about popular movements and voter fickleness.