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City council recall, Bartlesville, Oklahoma (2023-2024)
| Bartlesville city council recall |
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| Officeholders |
Jim Curd Jr. Loren Roszel |
| Recall status |
| Signature requirement |
| See also |
| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 2024 Recalls in Oklahoma Oklahoma recall laws City council recalls Recall reports |
An effort to recall Mayor Dale Copeland, Vice Mayor Jim Curd Jr., and Councilmember Loren Roszel did not go to a vote in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Copeland and Roszel were defeated in the November 5, 2024, general election. Curd ran unopposed and was re-elected.[1][2]
Recall supporters
A group called NEOK Grassroots organized the recall effort. The effort was initiated following an April 3, 2023, city council meeting in which Copeland, Curd, and Roszel voted to adopt an agreement with Oklahomans for Equality Bartlesville. The agreement limited drag performances to indoor venues or private property but does not ban them, and was set to expire on February 29, 2024.[3][4]
The text of the show cause statements for Copeland, Curd, and Roszel read in part as follows.[5]
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Whereas, the Bartlesville City Council acknowledged the objections of Bartlesville Citizens to drag shows hosted in public and attended by children, and as a result voted to pursue 'drafting options for possible municipal ordinances...which seeks to define and regulate obscenity in Bartlesville.' Whereas the Bartlesville City Council instead adopted an agreement with OKEQ (“Agreement”) to continue allowing drag shows in the City of Bartlesville.[6] |
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Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in Oklahoma
Recall organizers would have needed to submit a petition for each of the council members signed by 20% of voters registered in their respective wards in order to trigger a recall election.[7]
Recall context
- See also: Ballotpedia's Recall Report
Ballotpedia covers recall efforts across the country for all state and local elected offices. A recall effort is considered official if the petitioning party has filed an official form, such as a notice of intent to recall, with the relevant election agency.
The chart below shows how many officials were included in recall efforts from 2012 to 2024 as well as how many of them defeated recall elections to stay in office and how many were removed from office in recall elections.
See also
- Recall campaigns in Oklahoma
- Political recall efforts, 2023
- Political recall efforts, 2024
- City council recalls
External links
- Search Google News for this topic
- Bartlesville, Oklahoma
- NEOK Grassroots website
- NEOK Grassroots Facebook page
Footnotes
- ↑ Examiner-Enterprise, "Bartlesville residents launch city council recall after drag queen vote," April 28, 2023
- ↑ Bartlesville Radio, "Bartlesville Voters Elect 3 New City Council Members," November 5, 2024
- ↑ City of Bartlesville, "REGULAR MEETING OF THE BARTLESVILLE CITY COUNCIL," April 3, 2023
- ↑ City of Bartlesville, "MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BARTLESVILLE CITY COUNCIL," April 3, 2023
- ↑ Bartlesville Radio, "Volunteer Packet Bartlesville City Council Recall Effort," accessed May 10, 2023
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Bartlesville, Oklahoma - Code of Ordinances, "ARTICLE 4. - RECALL OF ELECTIVE OFFICERS," accessed May 10, 2023
