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Jennifer Klipp and Jennifer Ray recall, Marquette Area Public Schools, Michigan (2024)
| Marquette Area Public Schools recall |
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Jennifer Ray |
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| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 2024 Recalls in Michigan Michigan recall laws School board recalls Recall reports |
An effort to recall Jennifer Klipp and Jennifer Ray from their positions as members of the Marquette Area Public Schools Board of Education in Michigan did not go to a vote in 2024. The effort did not submit signatures by the deadline on December 10, 2024.[1][2]
The recall petitions were approved for circulation at a clarity hearing on June 12, 2024.[3] An earlier effort against Klipp and Ray did not go to a vote. During a clarity hearing on April 4, 2024, the Marquette Election Commission unanimously denied the recall petition language for being unclear.[4] An appeal of that decision was also rejected in court on May 24, 2024.[5]
A 2023 recall attempt against the same two board members was also rejected in a clarity hearing.[4]
Recall supporters
The recall petitions were filed by Margaret Brumm. The petitions each list the following reason for recall:[6]
| “ | Trustee [Klipp and Ray] voted to remove the Redmen and Redette nicknames from Marquette Senior High School.[7] | ” |
Brumm also filed the earlier recall petitions on March 20, 2024. Those petitions included the following reasons for recall:[4][8]
| “ | Violations of the MAPS Financial Policies and Procedures, 'Section 3000, Operations, Finance, and Property': Failure to manage control over MAPS depts to prevent embezzlement of at least $100,000; Failure to keep written records as required concerning donations of re-branded tee-shirts; Failure to manage rebranding efforts in a fiscally prudent manner, and Failure to publicly review Financial Status of MAPS at publicly scheduled School Board Meetings.[7] | ” |
Recall opponents
In response to the earlier recall effort, Ray said:[9]
| “ | Margaret Brumm herself has publicly, on both Facebook and in statements to the media, multiple times, made it abundantly clear that this is just one of her many phases as she attempts to position herself with writs of trademark and recalls in order to force the Board of Education to negotiate with her personally.[7] | ” |
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in Michigan
No specific grounds are required for recall in Michigan. To get a recall on the ballot in Michigan, recall supporters must collect signatures equal in number to 25% of voters in the jurisdiction in the last gubernatorial election. They have 60 days between the collection of the first signature and the collection of the last signature on the petition. Recall petitions are eligible to collect signatures for 180 days.[10][11][12]
To get the recalls against Klipp and Ray on the ballot, supporters had to collect 3,692 signatures per board member.[3] To place the recall on the November 2024 ballot, the signatures would have had to be turned in by August 2, 2024. Recall supporters did not submit signatures by that deadline. To place the recall on the May 2025 ballot, the signatures would have had to be turned in by December 10, 2024.[1]
2024 recall efforts
- See also: School board recalls
Ballotpedia tracked 40 school board recall efforts against 83 board members in 2024. Recall elections in 2024 removed 14 members from office, including three who resigned before the election, and retained seven members in office. The school board recall success rate was 13.4%.
The chart below details the status of 2024 recall efforts by individual school board member.
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
- Ballotpedia's Recall Report
- Marquette Area Public Schools, Michigan
- Marquette Area Public Schools, Michigan, elections
- Jennifer Klipp and Jennifer Ray recall, Marquette Area Public Schools, Michigan (2023)
- Recall campaigns in Michigan
- Political recall efforts, 2024
- School board recalls
- States that allow school board recalls
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 TV 6 News, "Signature collections fall short in MAPS school board recall effort," August 2, 2024
- ↑ Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Linda K. Talsma, Marquette County Clerk," December 11, 2024
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 TV 6 News, "Recall petition for 2 MAPS Board Members passes clarity hearing," June 12, 2024
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 WZMP CBS 19 News, "Marquette Election Commission denies recall language for 2 MAPS board members," April 4, 2024 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "rejected" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ TV 6, "UPDATE: Appeal for recall efforts against two MAPS Board Members denied," May 24, 2024
- ↑ UPmatter.com, "Marquette-area school board members face third recall effort over former High School nickname," May 30, 2024
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ UP Matters, "Klipp, Ray targets of yet another recall petition over high school’s rebranding," March 22, 2024
- ↑ TV 6 News, "Recall language submitted for 2 MAPS board members denied," April 4, 2024
- ↑ Michigan Election Law, "Act 116 of 1954: 168.955 Recall petition; number of signatures; certification." accessed October 13, 2023
- ↑ 'Michigan Election Law, "Act 116 of 1954: 168.961 Recall petition; filing; receipt; duties of filing official; duties of city or township clerk; certificate; duties of village clerk; use of qualified voter file." accessed October 13, 2023
- ↑ Michigan Election Officials' Manual, "Chapter 18 Recall Process," August 2017
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