I still haven't seen a signature gatherer yet. Why aren't they working the corners downtown? I need to figure out where to sign.

Thanks for reminding me Jack, and for posting the link - I'm going down to their office to sign today!

BTW, I totally love your blog - it has made it to the top left slot of my igoogle page - that is a spot of great honor - the first one i read. You're beating out some worthy adversaries - huffpo, digg, reddit, woot, kgw, NYTimes, and like 40 others.

Keep up the great work!

Heh. Thanks.

The locations for signing are listed on the linked page.

I'm glad to hear that the effort still has a chance. I signed weeks ago; just wish I could do it again. Please, anyone who has a horse in this race (and we all do) check out the places to sign on the website and take the little time necessary to find and sign a petition. I signed outside the courthouse downtown. Nicest signature gatherer I've ever talked with. And he's BLIND. If you can see you have no excuse re. not finding him.

I signed at the Grant HS game in the bowl a couple weeks ago.

This is important to the City. Find a petition and sign. Then, we shall see.

I agree with Sho.

Tell them to hit the Porland Marathon on Sunday. Lots of people with local ties. Maybe at the finish line.

Hi All,

This is the weekend for us to win this.

We are a volunteer grassroots organization and rely on each person who wants a recall to give a few hours this weekend to collect signatures.

You can call 503-995-3858 or email recall@recallsamadams.com to get petitions or locations to sign.

Call your friends and email them that the campaign office at 421 N Broadway is open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Thank you all for your help,

Jasun Wurster
Chief Petitioner
Community to Recall Sam Adams

Jasun, thanks. Take Bradach's advice, above. Please. I've been all over the city today walking mostly, saw neither hide nor hair of any sig gathering. It's Adams that should be a ghost, not you folks. C'mon!

If all else fails, you can sign at Division Hardware. You all know you are going to end up doing a hardware run this weekend, anyway. Get with it.

Here's a nice itinerary: Stop in at the Arleta Library Cafe for breakfast or lunch and then walk down two doors to the Queen of Hearts Tavern (72nd and Harold) and sign right up.

Wednesday I had to be on the East Side anyway and did just that, so I was feeling quite clever--and full--when I got back to pick up my mail at the Multnomah PO, and there was a guy with a petition right there, of all places.

Not quite surreal, but enough for a double-take, anyway, so keep your eyes peeled...

Signature gatherers go to the Greek Festival there will be thousands of people there.

It is too bad that Adams won't be recalled.
Unfortunately for me, and most of the people who WORK in Portland we don't live here.
The liberal elite can have him, this city will wake up when the people that work and pay taxes leave this fine city for a better business environment. Afterall, its the workers that make the city work, not the city bureaucrats.

Thanks,
Joe

Nice mug shot. How is that going to help this cause?

I haven't seen one signature gatherer. You really expect people to seek YOU out?! You don't really understand how a grassroots movement works do you? Good luck, but this strategy will fail.

"Afterall, its the workers that make the city work, not the city bureaucrats."

Well put. This city is collapsing under the weight of its own bureaucracy...just ask anybody that has to get things done going through City channels.

Hopefully, after Sammy, Randy, and Storm Large have left the scene we can have a strong administration that can clean up the mess of the liberal elite.

Storm Large?

"Storm Large?"

This video has been posted here before:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMnY5FAKhl4

If it isn't enough to make you sprint to the nearest recall petition and sign it, I don't know what will.

These guys have to go.

Um, leinad, even if it doesn't work by Monday, the field is plowed, and the seeds are in the ground.

Let's see, how much political power resides in a group of 25,000 petition signers (a number which, under the influence of a deadline, is swelling by the instant, like a sponge)? And how much potential power is in the silent group that is not quite pissed off enough to sign, but nonetheless, is pissed off? (A group whose members will sign, once the recall has been going on long enough to light their slow fuses?)

Answer: a lot.

I WOULD sign... but then I remember what happened to those people who signed a petition asking, essentially, for a recall of Chavez in Venezuela.

Don't be surprised that if Jasun's recall efforts fail that another group with money isn't in the wings to start another recall petition drive to oust Adams.

That, coupled with two to three lawsuits (the depositions have been numerous the past months) soon to start, means the city will be in disarray for a long time. Just what Sam wanted for our high unemployment city, while he'll continue to be ineffectual but still a media hound

Two days, ten hours to go. What a relief it'll soon be over. Maybe the Sam-haters will flagellate something else for a while. I find funniest the line "He lied to get elected." If he'd not lied, admitted to an ill-advised fling with a young hottie, does anyone seriously assert he still wouldn't have won by a landslide?

JimG,

I seriously assert it, having voted for him.

I could be wrong, of course. But a large number of us wouldn't have voted for him if he'd told the truth; if he'd won in spite of telling the truth, we couldn't have had that nasty January experience we had of feeling like we just got date-raped.

As Tip O'Neil said, all politics is personal.

JimG,

Very few of you are left. Enjoy it while it lasts. Adams a lying narcissistic jackass. And if the recall effort falls short of its goal, he's still a lying narcissistic jackass.

gaye h, "Tip" O'Neill's most popular quote is actually "All politics is local."
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_p_oneill.html

He learned early that you have to ask people for their votes.

You've certainly been asking a lot of people for their votes for most of the past 90dys. Thank you.

Okay, nattering nabobs, gnaw now this news nodule:
http://blogs.wweek.com/news/2009/10/04/breaking-new-mayoral-recall-campaign-will-begin-monday/#comment-99118