RECALL MCGEACHIN
Sign the petition to recall Lt. Governor Janice McGeachin:
The recall effort was organized by Black Lives Matter Boise Chapter. The petition has yet to be approved by the Idaho Secretary of State. The Recall Janice McGeachin is targeted for recall for the following:
Lt. Governor Janice McGeachin has abused her power of her office as well as the trust of the people of the State of Idaho by subscribing to an ideology of violence and hatred. She no longer has the consent of the people to be governed, as she has made it clear she only represents a racist domestic terrorist group, & not Idahoans.
THE THREE PERCENTERS
The Three Percenters (III%ers) movement is a broad set of splinter movements based upon a shared foundational and historically discredited myth that only three percent of the residents of the Thirteen Colonies took up arms against the British. The group was formed in 2008 after former President Barack Obama’s ascendance to the presidency declaring they were established to fight against “tyranny.” This perspective views wearing a mask as an issue of personal freedom and not public health. In 2008, conservative fears of the first Black president of the US, potential new gun regulation spawned the development of the now mainstream right-wing militia. The fear of a Black man leading the country was seized upon by ultra-racist Michael Brian Vanderboegh, who led the Sons of Liberty militia in the 1990s and co-founded the armed Three Percent movement in 2008 amidst a rising current of Tea Party nationalism. Vanderboegh died in 2016, well after the III% movement had grown far beyond his command (Southern Poverty Law Center, 10 August 2016).
In the years since Trump’s election in 2016, the III% movement has maintained their opposition to gun regulation as ‘government tyranny', who members are hardcore pro-Trump. White male particharial group is overwhelmingly middle aged and older whilte males with an increasingly younger population. The group is staunchly 2nd Amendment, and anti-government. The group is idoelogically made up of Judeo-Christian values and anti-gun control. The group is traditional is its approach to topics like abortion, marriage, & gun rights. The contemporary white supremacist militia protected obscounding members of the Oregon legislature fleeing vote(s) surrounding fossil fuel regulations and climate change. During this time, the III% movement has been marked extensively by internal upheaval, splinters, and drama between both leaders and rank-and-file members (MilitiaWatch, 11 September 2020).
In addition to involvement in demonstrations, a number of training exercises have been reported across Georgia, Maryland, and Illinois, and Idaho. The III%ers and their various splinters have been active in at least 19 states since the start of summer 2020. In Georgia, the militia was present to block the protesters’ access to a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) compound, on request of the KKK to ‘provide security. III%er's are especially present in Idaho where the Lt. Governor Janice McGeachin has publicly displayed support for the group(s) & even courted well-known members of the white supremacist group. Therefore, it is imperative that those who hold office not partake in domestic terrorism, particularly armed white supremacist militia.
According to the State of Idaho the number of valid signatures required for a recall election is 20 percent of the number of persons that voted in the last preceding election for the office of incumbent being recalled. Circulation of the recall petition must be completed within 75 days after the form of the recall petition is approved for circulation.