Recall campaigns

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Here you'll find a collection of historical and current recall campaigns.

2009

City councils

• Astabula City Council recall, 2009
• Buckeye Town Council recall, Arizona 2009^[1]
• Jerry Kern recall, Oceanside 2009.^[2]
• San Fernando City Council recall, 2009 ^[3] (Fernandez and Ruelas successfully recalled)
• Jackie Poplar recall, Michigan 2009. ^[4]
• Madison Nguyen recall, San Jose, California, 2009.^[5] (Nguyen retains her seat.)
• Buena Vista Board of Trustees recall, Colorado, 2009.^[6] (Trustees kept their seats)
• Hondo City Council recalls, Texas, 2009.^[7]
• Golden City Council recalls, Colorado, 2009.^[8]
• Kent City Council recall, Ohio, 2009.^[9] (Council members keep their seats)

Governors

• Arnold Schwarzenegger recall, 2009^[10]
• Jim Doyle recall, 2009

School boards

• Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified School District recall of all board members, 2009. All five school board members were recalled.
• Falcon School District 49 board recall, Colorado 2009^[11]
• Ferndale School District board recall, 2009.^[12]
• Gladstone School Board recall, Michigan 2009. ^[13] (withdrawn}
• Greg Wilkinson recall, 2009.^[14]
• Jesus Velazquez recall, Alisal Union School District, 2009
• Mason Consolidated Schools board recall, 2009^[15]
• Newman-Crows Landing school board recall, 2009^[16]
• Saginaw Board of Education recall, 2009^[17]
• Tehachapi Unified School District board recall, 2009^[18]
• Westwood Heights School District recall, 2009.^[19] (3 board members recalled)

Mayors/presidents

• Sam Adams recall, Portland, Oregon, 2009.^[20]
• Martha Andrus recall, Grambling, Louisiana, 2009.^[21]
• Carty Finkbeiner recall, 2009. Mayor of Toledo, Ohio.^[22]
• Mark Funkhouser recall (2009). Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri.
• Steve Hunter recall, Louisiana 2009. ^[23]
• Don Plusquellic recall, Akron, Ohio, 2009^[24]
• Eddie Price recall, Mandeville, Louisiana, 2009.^[25]
• Bernard Russell recall, Lyons 2009.^[26]
• Ernie Troiano and Bill Davenport recall, Wildwood, New Jersey, 2009.^[27]
• Lyle Turner recall election, 2009^[28] (Turner was recalled)
• Silverio Vega recall, West New York, 2009.^[29]
• Silverio Vega recall, West New York, 2009.^[30]
• Matt White recall, El Reno, Oklahoma, 2009.^[31]
• Don Williamson recall, Michigan 2009. Mayor of Flint, Michigan.

County officials

• Don Munsterman recall, Stevens County Commissioner, 2009.^[32]
• Bill Postmus recall, San Bernardino, California, 2009.^[33]
• Kevin Stufflebean recall, Coos County, Oregon, 2009.^[34]
• Julia Moeller recall, Adams County, Nebraska, 2009.^[35]
• Ned Piper and Merritt Ketcham recall, Cowlitz County PUD Commissioners, 2009^[36]

Sheriffs

• Deborah Trout recall, Hunterdon County, 2009.^[37]
• Daryl Anderson recall, Lincoln County, Montana, 2009.^[38]
• Wally Krenzke recall, Price County, 2009.^[39]

Special districts

• Jim Schneider recall, Osage Beach Fire Protection District, 2009.^[40]
• Evermore Community Improvement District recalls, Gwinnett County, 2009.^[41] (Robinson and Shiver recalled)
• Fraser Valley Metropolitan Recreation Board recall, Colorado, 2009^[42] (all three board members retained seats)

State legislatures

• Anthony Adams
• Jim Silva
• Roy Ashburn
• Abel Maldonado
• Jeff Miller

2008

Successful

• Sheila Benecke recall (2008). This recall election in the Capistrano Unified School District was held on June 24, 2008.
• Marlene Draper recall (2008).
• Mary Jane Galviso recall (2008). Orosi Public Utility District in Tulare County.^[19]
• Rodney Sanders recall (2008). Strathmore Public Utilities District in Tulare County.^[19]

Unsuccessful

• Jeff Denham recall (2008). California state legislator, election scheduled for June 3, 2008.
• Andy Dillon recall (2008). Speaker of the House, Michigan. Ruling in Bogaert v. Land put the recall on the November 4, 2008 ballot.

Insufficient signatures

• Mike Fahey recall (2008). Mayor of Omaha, Nebraska. Failed to collect enough signatures.
• Mark Funkhouser recall (2008). Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri. Failed.
• Kwame Kilpatrick recall (2008). Mayor of Detroit, Michigan
• Susan Merrow recall (2008).^[43]
• Michelle Strong recall (2008). School board member, Clayton County schools, Georgia.
• Sandra Scott recall (2008). School board member, Clayton County schools, Georgia.
• Southfield school board members (2008).^[44]
• See also 2008 recall campaigns

2007

• Robert Spangler recall (2007). Doraville, Georgia, city council.
• Shelly Wilson recall (2007), Chatham School District, Alaska, school board member. Recalled.
• Edward Gamble recall (2007), Chatham School District school board member. Recalled.
• Irene Paul recall (2007), Chatham School District school board member. Recalled.

2006

• Kathleen Blanco recall (2006), Governor. Failed to collect enough signatures.
• Aaron Broussard recall (2006), Jefferson parish president in Louisiana. Collected 49,000 signatures; short of the 88,000 needed for an election.

2005

• Phaedra Graham recall (2005). Mayor of Riverdale, Georgia. Failed.
• Paul Howard recall (2005). District attorney, Atlanta, Georgia.
• Saundra McFadden-Weaver recall (2005). This recall of a Third District Councilwoman in Kansas City failed.
• James West recall (2005). This recall of the mayor of Spokane, Washington, was successful.

2003

• Gray Davis recall (2003). Gray Davis, governor of California, was successfully recalled.
• Nativo Lopez recall (2003). Lopez, board member of the Santa Ana Unified School District in California, was successfully recalled.
• Huey Dean recall, 2003. Mayor of Homer, Louisiana.^[45]

2002

• Tom Ament recall (2002) . Ament resigned after facing recall when CRG collected 182,000 signatures (110,000 more than needed) in 30 days (half the allotted time) for his role in perpetrating a pension fraud that paid millions ($120 million and counting) in lump sum retirement payments and other benefits to county employees.
• Karen Ordinans recall (2002) . Ordinans was recalled and replaced in a special election for her part in approving and passing the Ament pension plan. Think your vote doesn't count? Ordinans lost the recall election by only three votes.
• Kathleen Arciszewski recall (2002) . Arciszewski was Ament's hand-picked replacement for Supervisor Robert Krug when he started asking too many embarrassing questions about the fraudulent pension plan. Krug had been the county board representative on the Personnel Committee which had partial oversight of the pension deal. An ardent supporter of Ament, Arciszewski was recalled and easily defeated in a special election.

1999

• Dave Meneley recall (1999). The effort to recall Dave Meneley, the sheriff in Shawnee County, Kansas, failed.

1996

• Doris Allen recall (1996), California. Recall was successful.
• George Petak recall (1996), Wisconsin. Recall was successful.

1995

• Mike Machado recall (1995), State senator, California. Recall was unsuccessful.
• Paul V. Horcher recall (1995), State senator, California. Recall was successful.

1994

• David Roberti recall (1994), State senator, California. Recall failed.

1993

• Bob Garfinkle recall (1993), City Council, Union City, California. Recall failed by one vote.

1992

• Covina City Council recall (1992). All five members of the city council were successfully recalled, including Henry Morgan,Richard Gratton, John King, Chris Lancaster and Frieda Richardson. (Also see Covina Utility Tax (June 2008).)

1988

• Evan Mecham recall (1988), Govenor of Arizona. Mecham was impeached and removed from office before the recall election took place.

1983

• Phil Mastin recall (1983), Michigan state senator, successfully recalled.
• David Serotkin recall (1983), Michigan state senator, successfully recalled.

1978

• Dennis Kucinich recall (1978). Kucinich escaped this recall.

1967

• Frank Church recall (1967). Unsuccessful.

1952

• J.E. Bennett recall (1952), Portland, Oregon city commissioner. Recall was successful.

1949

• Mike Elliott recall, Multnomah County, 1949

1932

• John Mann recall, Portland, 1932. Portland City Council. Recall was successful.

1924

• Multnomah County Commission recall, Oregon, 1924

1921

• Lynn Frazier recall (1921). Lynn Frazier, Governor of North Dakota, was successfully recalled.

1916

• Edwin Grant recall (1914), California. Recall was successful.

1914

• Jeremiah Robinson recall (1914). A successful recall of the mayor of Boise, Idaho.

1913

• Marshall Black recall (1913), California. Recall was successful.
• James Owens recall (1913), California. Recall was unsuccessful.

1911

• J.H. Graham recall (1911). This effort to recall the Mayor of Wichita, Kansas was successful.

References

	v • d • e 2009 recall campaigns
Mayors	Sam Adams • Martha Andrus • Carty Finkbeiner • Mark Funkhouser • Steve Hunter • Don Plusquellic • Eddie Price • Bernard Russell • Ernie Troiano • "Sal" Vega • Matt White • Don Williamson
City council	Ashtabula City Council, Ohio • Bill Davenport • Buena Vista, Colorado • Golden City Council, Colorado • Hondo City Council, Texas • Kent City Council, Ohio • Jerry Kern • Madison Nguyen • Jackie Poplar • San Fernando City Council, California •
School board	Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified School District, California • Gladstone School Board, Michigan • Jesus Velazquez, Alisal Union • Westwood Heights School District, Michigan • Greg Wilkinson
County officials	Bill Postmus • Julia Moeller • Don Munsterman • Kevin Stufflebean
Sheriff	Daryl Anderson • Wally Krenzke • Deborah Trout
Special district	Evermore Community Improvement District, Georgia • Jim Schneider • Lyle Turner • Cowlitz County PUD Commissioners • Fraser Valley Rec Board, Colorado
State legislative	Anthony Adams • Roy Ashburn • Jim Silva • Abel Maldonado • Jeff Miller