Paradise Sewer Board Directors Sunny Chase and Rick McCollum are facing a recall effort claims that they have held private meetings and haven't kept proper records. The issue seems to be around a large infrastructure project.
Montana is a Malfeasance Standard state, so petitioners have to meet the for cause statutory requirement to get on the ballot.
Petitioners have handed in 305 verified signatures for the recall of St. Paul Mayor Joel Bergman. Petitioners needed 257 signatures. The issue was Bergman's decision to not retain the police chief. Bergman was first elected in 2018. The recall date must be scheduled in 21 days.
A proposal to change the way the Punta Gorda Airport Authority Commissioners are elected (moving from a district based election to an at large one) has led to a threat of a recall against State Representative Michael Grant (R). Grant proposed the changes and his daughter, Commissioner Vanessa Oliver, was the sole "no" vote in a resolution opposing the rule. The issue seems to be about privatization of the airport, which Grant supports.
Florida does not have a state level recall law, so it is not clear how they hope to get a recall against Grant on the ballot.
Arizona State Senator Paul Boyer (R) is facing recall threats from Republicans over a vote against the enforcement of a subpoena of the Maricopa County Elections Department. The Maricopa Supervisors have also been threatened with recalls. Boyer is also facing complaints over a vote against removing names from the permanent elections list.
San Francisco School Board is facing recall threats over several issues, including a push to plan for the reopening of the schools, changing admissions for a high school and an extremely controversial decision to change the names of public schools for political reasons and using some odd history, including removing the name of Abraham Lincoln. Mayor London Breed has been particularly critical of the board, and the City Attorney Dennis Herrera has sued to compel reopening.
The members are President Gabriela Lopez, Vice President Alison Collins and members Jenny Lam, Mark Sanchez and Kevine Boggess, Faauuga Moliga and Matt Alexander, some of whom will not be able to face a recall until June. San Francisco follows state law, which would require 10% of registered voters in the city. so that should be about 51,413 valid signatures for each board member.
A criminal complaint has been filed over the use of fraudulent signatures in the recall of Aichi Governor Hidekai Omura. Hundreds of thousands of signatures thrown out because they look to be forgeries (83% of 435,000) and 48% were not listed on voter roles. Petitioners needed 860,000 signatures. According to reports, an advertising company contractor hired people to copy names and addresses onto the petitions.
The recall effort is led by a Holocaust-denier and denier of the Nanking Massacre, Katsuya Takasu, a cosmetic surgeon (who for some reason is on an arts festival committee). The event was an arts festival which included, among other art, a statue of a girl representing Korean comfort women, who were forced into sexual slavery in WWII. Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura, who was the organizing committee's acting chairman, also promoted the recall drive.
Montezuma-Cortez School Board member Lance McDaniel was ousted in a February 16 recall vote, 27776-1387 (66.6% for removal). Turnout was reported as low. The recall was over Facebook posts where McDaniel espoused progressive causes and claimed to be antifa and was seemingly upset about a park naming.
Cody Wells was the only candidate in the replacement race
Not a recall subject, but it gets to the heart of the philosophical debate over the recall and changing views of the trustee vs. representative (or advocate) model:
“We did not send him there to vote his conscience, we did not send him there to do the right thing, whatever he said he was doing. We sent him there to represent us, and we feel very strongly that he did not represent us.”
— Dave Ball, Washington County Pennsylvania GOP chair, on voting to censure Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) for his impeachment vote to convict Donald Trump.
St. Charles Unit District 303 School Board President Nick Manheim, VP Carolyn Waibel and members Jillian Barker, Becky McCabe and Ed McNally and re facing a recall effort, though the district does not actually have a recall law. Petitioners are following the regulations on the gubernatorial recall (though that shouldn't matter). They seem to be hoping for a resignation. One member, Heidi Fairgrieve, is not named. Three of the members are up for election.
The issue is the school board's use of hybrid learning to protect students during the coronavirus pandemic.
Santee Mayor John Minto is calling for Supervisor Nathan Fletcher to resign after Fletcher called some of the proponents of the Governor Gavin Newsom recall effort extremists and conspiracy theorists, among other terms. Fletcher has rejected Minto's complaints.
Shasta County Supervisors Leonard Moty, Mary Rickert and Joe Chimenti and Les Baugh are facing recall threats over their support for restrictions to fight the Covid pandemic (though Baugh appears to be opposed to the restrictions). Here's a vastly more detailed look at the fight, which notes that petitioners would need about 4000 valid signatures.
The Republican National Committee has given $250,000 to the recall effort against Governor Gavin Newsom (D). I would argue that this is a multi-million dollar kind-distribution to Newsom, as the more this recall is seen as a partisan battle, the better off he is. But, obviously the RNC disagrees.
The recall effort against San Diego City Council President Jennifer Campbell has started over what seems to be a vote on costal height policies and mainly short-term rentals in the city. Campbell has argued that there is simply no possibility of banning short term rentals, which some residents in her district want. Former City Councilwoman Barbara Bry wrote the op-ed and supports the recall effort. Petitioners need 13,553 signatures to get on the ballot.
Reports are now out that the mayor's holdover campaign account helped push the fight against the recall effort against Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird (D) and Councilmembers James Michael Bowers (D), Richard Meginnis (R), Jane Raybould (D) and Tammy Ward (D). The effort failed, with petitioners not handing in signatures. A City Council candidate in 2021, Benjamin Madsen, filed the petitions. The source of spending (which in total was about 19.500) seems unsurprising.
The recall was over the appointment of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Director and mask requirements to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Petitioners needed 21,652 signatures in 30 days to get the Baird recall on the ballot, and 4864 for Bowers, 8009 for Meginnis, 5362 for Raybould and 2495 for Ward. Three Council members were ineligible to be recalled, because they are in the grace period before the 2021 election.
Comedian Larry the Cable Guy backed the recall, which seems to have garnered some press. Lincoln last had a recall in 2000, when a member of the Rokseby school board was kicked out.
The Genesee County Election Commission has now rejected four recall attempts against Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley on clarity grounds. The same petitioner seems to be filing all the efforts. One was over excess general liability insurance coverage; another was a complaint that he failed to make a state of the city address within a year in office, though this seems to be based on a timing question, as Neeley is gave his speech on December 8 (petitioner claims it is a year from being sworn in, while Neeley argues it was during the calendar year). A third was Neeley being copied on an email from the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy.
An anti-tax attorney is proposing easing recall laws against Nashville city officials, with a charter amendment that will lower the amount of signatures needed to get on the ballot from 15% of turnout to 10%, expand the signature timeframe to 75 days from 30 and ban officials from running to replace themselves in a recall.
Arkansas's state legislature has is looking at a constitutional amendment which would create a state-level recall law. The amendment HJR1006 is one of 43 proposed constitutional amendments in front of the legislature. The legislature is limited to referring three of these to the voters.
