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City council recall, Anaheim, California (1925)
| Anaheim city council recall |
|---|
 |
| Officeholders |
| Recall status |
Recall defeated (One member) |
| Recall election date |
| February 3, 1925 |
| See also |
| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 1925 Recalls in California California recall laws City council recalls Recall reports |
Two separate recall efforts resulted in an election to recall all five members of the Anaheim City Council, then called the Anaheim Board of Trustees, being held on February 3, 1925. One recall effort targeted four council members associated with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The other recall effort targeted the council member who was not affiliated with the KKK.[1][2][3]
Voters recalled the four council members associated with the KKK. Voters retained the council member who was not affiliated with the KKK.[3]
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Recall vote
Voter turnout in the recall election was 93%. The four councilors associated with the KKK were recalled by a margin of around 2,300 votes to 1,800 votes. The remaining councilor was retained in a 2,199 to 1,792 vote.[3]
Recall supporters
Four council members
The recall effort involving four of the councilors was initiated after their names were found on the membership list of a local klavern. Organizers alleged that the councilors allowed the KKK to hold large meetings in the city park "at which meetings numbers of our citizens and taxpayers have been insulted and held up to scorn and ridiculed by reason of their religious faith," permitted, "the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Klansmen's robes, to patrol the streets and direct traffic thereon," and "permitted and countenanced the defacing of the city streets by painted letters 'K.K.K.' and 'K.I.G.Y.'"[2][3]
One council member
The other recall effort involving the remaining councilor was organized by the KKK. The petition to recall this councilor alleged that he did not cooperate with the rest of the councilors, hadn't signed a financial demand related to prohibition enforcement, and was incompetent due to indifference and because he neglected his duties.[3]
Recall opponents
Four council members
The four council members denied that the KKK dictated their administrative policy. They said that the only request the KKK had made of them was to enforce the law impartially and that their conduct in office was proof that they should continue to hold office.[3]
One council member
The remaining council member said that he did not cooperate with the rest of the board because they had adopted a secret policy, that the financial demand he hadn't signed was illegal, and denied incompetency.[3]
See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ City of Anaheim, "Past Anaheim City Officials," accessed August 1, 2024
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Los Angeles Times, "It’s Been 70 Years Since Anaheim Booted Klan," November 26, 1994
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Bird, F. & Ryan, F. (1930). The Recall of Public Officers. New York, NY: The Macmillan Company. (pages 137-139)
