Word to Funkhouser foes: Do not plan on signing the recall petition when you go to the polls on Tuesday. Nobody's going to be asking for your John Hancock, as far as I can tell.

   Organizers of the Dump the Funk campaign (my name for it) plan on skipping what would be one of their best opportunities to collect some of the 17,000 signatures needed to put the recall question on the ballot.

    Some pundits pointed to Tuesday's election -- when a record number of registered voters are supposed to be going to the polls -- as one reason not to count out the recall campaign.

 Normally, collecting the names of that many registered voters in fewer than 30 days (the time limit) would be extremely tough.

   But with all those registered voters going to the polls on Super Duper Tuesday, recall supporters had an opportunity to collect quite a few names. Maybe enough to put the recall campaign into high gear.

However, after speaking with one of the recall leaders on Monday night, I'm sticking with my earlier prediction: The chances of a recall even getting on the ballot are somewhere between "slim" and "none."

"I didn't want to confuse the issues," is how recall campaign leader Saundra Ross explained her decision to sit out Tuesday's election.

   She and her friends will not be out collecting signatures, she said, because the presidential primary ought to be the sole focus.

   "I'm going to let the election speak for itself," she said.

   And that, I think, speaks to the seriousness of the recall campaign.