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DAVID CITY, Nebraska:Residents circulating a petition to recall David City Mayor Dana Trowbridge stated that they have collected enough signatures put the issue to a public vote.
Petition organizer Steve Gaston is supporting a recall effort to oust the mayor because he is concerned with the future of the police department and is unhappy with the salary of City Administrator Joe Johnson. According to Gaston:"[The Mayor's actions] have proven not to be in the best interest or with regard to the welfare of the citizens of David City."[1]
OMAHA, Nebraska: Kent Bernbeck, an Omaha businessman and activist, announced he will file a federal lawsuit alleging Nebraska's petition laws are too restrictive and thus violate citizen freedom of speech. According to the Ohama World-Herald, the suit "will challenge a requirement that says petition circulators must be residents of Nebraska and a ban on paying circulators based on how many signatures they gather. The Legislature passed those provisions last year in reaction to aggressive and sometimes harassing tactics used by out-of-state petition circulators in gathering signatures. Bernbeck, who has been involved in several petition drives over the past two decades, said the 2008 laws violate the free-speech rights of citizens to place initiatives on the state ballot."[2]
FREMONT, Nebraska: A judge will decide whether voters in Fremont, Nebraska can vote on a city-wide initiative that would ban the "harboring of and hiring of illegal immigrants".[3]
4,100 petition signatures were collected to qualify the measure for the ballot and Dodge County Clerk Fred Mytty said that at least 3,343 of them were valid, versus a requirement of 20% of Fremont's registered voters, or 3,100 valid signatures.[4]
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