Oregon: Recall effort against House Majority Leader dropped

The effort against House Majority Leader Val Hoyle over her support for background checks on private gun transfers was dropped, with the petitioner local gun shop owner Jason Thiesfeld claiming that he is abandoning the effort now that Hoyle is stepping down as leader (possibly to run for Secretary of State) He claims that he has the 3630 signatures needed, though without turning them in, there's usually good reason to doubt this.

There has been complaints against the recall effort claiming that since the employees at the gun stores were collecting signatures, they needed to register as paid petitioners.

There are still three recall efforts on going. No word on their possibility for success.