I don’t need to say very much about this. It pretty much speaks for itself.

Marian Gbaiwon is the main “organizer” of the recall effort against Gov. Jeff Landry. We addressed the fact that this is a grift, aimed at getting a list of left-wing activist Democrats together that Gbaiwon and Kaitlyn Patricia Collins, the other principal in the recall effort, could then monetize through list brokers. If you sign this thing, you’re giving your contact information to these two women so that they can profit off you getting spammed to death for the rest of your life.

And she just put this up on Facebook making it absolutely obvious that’s exactly what this is. We’ll translate it for you.

SIGNATURE COUNT TRANSPARENCY UPDATE:

A lot of people keep asking what our signature count is, and I completely understand why. People are excited, invested, and want to know how things are progressing.

Translation: We’re not on track to get the 501,000 valid signatures we need to make this recall happen, we’ve never been on track for that and we have no prospect for getting on track for it.

The reality is that counting signatures is not our primary focus right now.

It never was and never will be – at least, not until we start shopping this around to the list brokers.

Our immediate priority is making sure every person who wants to sign has the opportunity to sign. Right now, we are focused on expanding across Louisiana, establishing parish leadership, training volunteers, verifying forms, strengthening quality control, and preparing for our statewide tour. We also have a recall effort in East Baton Rouge with only about two months remaining, which requires significant attention and resources.

The recall effort against Sid Edwards in Baton Rouge that these two grifters are running, the last we checked, had less than a dozen signatures on it. The idea that this would somehow be an excuse not to be counting signatures on a statewide recall is pretty damning.

At the same time, we’re reviewing forms, identifying potential issues, improving our processes, and making sure signatures are being collected correctly. A signature only helps if it’s valid, so accuracy matters just as much as volume.

In other words, they’re entering all that contact info into the CSV file they’re going to sell.

It’s also important to understand that we’re building this entire operation with virtually no funding behind it. Other than donations that have helped with supplies, travel, and some basic personal necessities, to date, we have not received any financial backing behind this campaign. Campaigns of this size typically require MILLIONS, of dollars to operate. We’re building a statewide machine largely through volunteer leadership, determination, and the support of everyday people.

Yeah, this isn’t a serious effort. But don’t ask us why we didn’t raise money and build the operation before we got started with the recall and had the clock start on it, because then we’d have to tell you what this really is.

Because of that, we’ve had to be intentional. We’re not focused on simply bringing in large numbers of people and hoping for the best. We’re focused on building the right team, training people correctly, maintaining compliance, and protecting the integrity of the process. We would rather build something sustainable and effective than move fast and create problems that hurt the effort later.

In other words, this is all bullshit.

We’re also navigating the realities that come with leading a movement of this size, including hostility, threats, and security concerns that Katilyn and I face on a regular basis. Those realities require time, planning, and resources as well.

Also bullshit.

Please know this: we would not be investing this level of time, energy, and sacrifice if our goal was anything less than exceeding the number of signatures needed to make these recalls successful.

Everybody knows the recalls won’t be successful. Especially Marian and Kaitlyn Patricia, who just want to spam all the morons who sign this recall petition.

We are incredibly grateful to every person who has signed, volunteered, donated, hosted an event, opened a location, or helped spread the word. You have done your part. Our responsibility now is to continue building the infrastructure necessary to make this effort successful statewide.

Whatever.

The goal remains the same: no area of Louisiana left untouched and no voter who wants to sign left without the opportunity to do so.

Because the bigger the list the more they can sell it for.

Read this again, if you care enough to do it, and you’ll understand that a real recall effort would have found financial backers and built an organization up front before collecting the first signature, it wouldn’t provide a running count of signatures but it would announce milestones as a proof-of-concept, and it would embrace the participation of partner organizations – none of which these two people are doing.

That’s how you know it’s a grift. And once you evaluate everything these people say along those lines, it becomes unmistakable that this is what’s going on.