- Governor Scott Walker
What is surely undeniable is that Ministers’ refusal even to address the issue of recall – to which the Government had been publicly, if reticently, committed since its January 2011 mayoral impact assessment – understandably increased people’s doubts about elected mayors and ultimately cost votes (see http://www.thechamberlainfiles.com/if-ministers-want-us-to-vote-for-mayors-why-make-it-so-hard/).
I’ve been wondering this past week – over the final stages of arguably the second most important US election this year – whether, if those mayoral referendums had been held just a month later, the topic might have forced itself on to our electoral agenda, and, if so, with what effect?
The election in question was only the third time in US history that a state Governor faced the prospect of being voted out of office in a recall election – and the first time ever
