Matt Garner and Bobby Duncan recall, Yucaipa, California (2024)
| Matt Garner and Bobby Duncan recall |
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| Officeholders |
Bobby Duncan |
| Recall status |
Did not go to a vote (Duncan) |
| Recall election date |
| November 5, 2024 |
| Signature requirement |
| See also |
| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 2024 Recalls in California California recall laws City council recalls Recall reports |
An effort to recall District 1 City Councilman Matt Garner was scheduled for November 5, 2024. Voters recalled Garner.[1][2][3]
An effort to recall District 3 City Councilman Bobby Duncan did not go to a vote. Duncan's seat was on the ballot on November 5, 2024. He did not seek re-election.[1][4]
A 2023 effort to recall Garner, Duncan, and Mayor Justin Beaver did not go to a vote. Click here to learn more about the 2023 recall effort in Yucaipa.
Recall vote
Matt Garner recall, 2024
Matt Garner lost the Yucaipa City Council District 1 recall election on November 5, 2024.
Recall Vote |
% |
Votes |
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| ✖ | Yes |
65.7
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3,527 | ||
No |
34.3
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1,839 | |||
Total Votes |
5,366 | ||||
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Recall supporters
A group called Save Yucaipa organized the recall effort. The group gave the following as the reasons for recalling Garner:[5]
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The notice of intent to recall Duncan read, "As concerned citizens of Yucaipa, we believe that Yucaipa residents have no confidence in Bobby Duncan and that the only way to safeguard city funds, prevent corruption, and preserve Yucaipa’s hometown charm is to remove Bobby Duncan from office. Bobby Duncan ignores the opinions of Yucaipa residents and lacks transparency on questionable expenditures, in our opinion. Bobby Duncan voted to replace our competent, successful, honest, and long-time City Manager Ray Casey with Chris Mann, who we believe to be a political operative and less qualified to be our city manager, without the city conducting a transparent executive search to find a replacement for the city manager."[4]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in California
No specific grounds are required for recall in California. The recall process starts with a notice of intention to recall. The notice must be served to the officer whose recall is being sought as well as published in a newspaper of general circulation. The notice must then be filed with the relevant election office. Once the notice has been deemed sufficient by the election office, a petition must also be filed and approved by the election office. Once the petition is approved, it can be circulated. To get a recall on the ballot, supporters must collect signatures from registered voters in the jurisdiction. The number of signatures required is between 10% and 30% of registered voters in the jurisdiction, depending on the size of the jurisdiction. Jurisdictions with 1,000 registered voters or fewer require 30%, and jurisdictions with 100,000 or more registered voters require 10%. Charter cities can also set their own signature threshold. The amount of time allowed for the circulation of recall petitions also varies by the number of registered voters in a jurisdiction, between 40 and 160 days. Jurisdictions with fewer than 1,000 registered voters allow 40 days, and jurisdictions with more than 50,000 registered voters allow 160 days.[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
- Ballotpedia's Recall Report
- Yucaipa, California
- Recall campaigns in California
- Political recall efforts, 2024
- City council recalls
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Sun, "2024 Election Results: Yucaipa recall and tax measure are both leading," November 8, 2024
- ↑ City of Yucaipa, "RESOLUTION NO. 2024- 36," accessed November 22, 2024
- ↑ San Bernardino County, "2024 Presidential Election Results," accessed December 3, 2024
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 San Bernardino County Sentinel, "Yucaipa Residents Revive Recall Attempts Targeting Councilmen Duncan And Garner," January 12, 2024
- ↑ Save Yucaipa, "Recall Matt Garner 2.0!" accessed November 12, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Recall Procedures Guide 2023," accessed October 16, 2023
