Keeping things "In the Family"

Ain't it a great and marvelous thing....

Here West Haven stands - nearly broke (so much so that our "Proven Financial Manager" had to raid - possibly illegally - the Police Pension Fund to the tune of 1.2 million dollars to pay the City's bills...and needs another 1.5 million bucko's to keep on paying its bills....

And yet...and YET...

John Picard sees no problem creating yet another job for a member of the extended Pascale/Evangeliste/Lorusso family.

This group (according my my rough calculations) pulls nearly one million dollars off the City...and out of the taxes we pay. West Haven Politics as usual: give your supporters the jobs they want....and to hell with the taxpayers. "Why should we care about them?", they say, "We're elected...and they can't get rid of us!" Right?

WRONG!

I am proposing a petition to put the question on the ballot:

"Shall the City Charter be amended as follows:

Article XVIII (Initiative, Referendum) shall be amended to include the following text to read :'Elected Officials covered by this Charter may by removed from office by RECALL REFERENDUM by the provisions contained herein for INITIATIVE, excepting: upon receipt of certified signatures of registered voters equal to or exceeding ten percent (10%) of the number of voters who voted in the last municipal election, a RECALL REFERENDUM shall be held within 60 days to determine if ALL the specified elected municipal official(s) named in said recall petition shall be removed from his or their elected office(s). The ballot in such a RECALL REFERENDUM shall read as follows: 'Shall All the the elected officials named below be removed from office?', followed by the name(s) of the elected officials and his or their respective elected office(s). Upon the result of sixty percent (60%) of those voting concurring with removal of ALL such elected officials, at such recall election, the individuals shall vacate the elected office(s) to which he or they were elected; and the provisions for replacement as determined by this Charter, or by applicable State law, shall determine the proper successor to the elected office(s) so affected. ?"

This Charter change would make recall difficult....but possible.

Anyone else with me on this?