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Opinion: Note to political activists: Check the fine print

By Scott Martelle
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A move to force a recall vote of Democratic Sen. Harry Reid by some of our neighbors in Nevada upset over his political stances fell apart over a small but troublesome point: The state has no legal mechanism for recalling a U.S. senator.

Oops.

-- Scott Martelle

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Scott Martelle

Scott Martelle is a former Times staff writer and member of the editorial board. He also is the author of several nonfiction books on such disparate subjects as the Ludlow Massacre and 1913-14 Colorado coalfield war, the history of Detroit, and William Walker, the pre-Civil War American adventurer who for a brief time made himself president of Nicaragua.

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