Mayor and city council recall, Irvine, California (2020)
| Irvine Mayor and City Council recall |
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| Officeholders |
Mike Carroll |
| Recall status |
| See also |
| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 2020 Recalls in California California recall laws Mayoral recalls City council recalls Recall reports |
Efforts in Irvine, California, to recall Irvine Mayor Christina Shea and City Councilmember Mike Carroll were initiated in November 2019. Petitioners began gathering signatures in January 2020, but decided to suspend the recall campaign in March 2020 due to difficulties posed by the coronavirus pandemic and California Gov. Gavin Newsom's stay-at-home order.[1]
Recall supporters
In the petition against Christina Shea, recall supporters alleged that "Mayor Christina Shea serves her own interests and big developers, not Irvine residents," and further that she became mayor due to a backroom political deal with developers. In the petition against Councilmember Mike Carroll, supporters stated that Shea appointed Carroll to fill Shea's council seat when she became mayor, and Carroll aligned himself with Shea and developers against the will of the people. The petition went on to say that, "Irvine residents deserve to have an elected Councilmembers who is beholden to the people rather than beholden to an unelected Mayor and billion-dollar developers."[2]
Recall petition
Recall opponents
Shea and Carroll both answered the allegations in text that was included in the recall petitions. Shea wrote that the recall petition contained false and misleading statements, and that the effort was only a campaign strategy by Kevork Abazajian, one of the petition's official proponents, to promote his 2020 mayoral run. Carroll reiterated Shea's statements about Abazajian and further accused the recall supporters of wasteful spending for a recall effort when his seat was already up for election in the 2020 general election.[2]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in California
Petitions against both Shea and Carroll were approved for circulation in November 2019. Petitioners began collecting signatures in January 2020. In order to put the recalls on the ballot, petitioners were required to collect signatures from 10% of all registered voters in the City of Irvine by June 4.[3] Petitioners suspended the recall campaign in March 2020 due to difficulties posed by the coronavirus pandemic and California Gov. Gavin Newsom's stay-at-home order.[1]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Irvine Community News & Views, "Stay-at-Home Order Forces Recall Campaign to End," accessed June 9, 2020
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 City of Irvine, "Petition for Recall," accessed June 9, 2020
- ↑ New University, "Petition To Recall Irvine Mayor And City Councilor Begins Collecting Signatures," March 10, 2020
