Tag: recall
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GUEST COLUMN: When recalls become routine, democracy suffers
Colorado Springs voters elected Tom Bailey to the City Council just last year. Now he is stepping down—not because voters rejected him at the ballot box, but because a small group of activists refused to accept the outcome of that election and pursued a recall campaign to overturn it. This isn’t about one councilmember or one set of debates at City Hall. It’s about whether…
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Tom Bailey resigns from Colorado Springs City Council
Just under a year since being elected to the Colorado Springs City Council, councilmember Tom Bailey has resigned in the face of a successful recall campaign. Bailey announced his decision at a press conference on Tuesday in the City Council Chambers at the end of the council meeting. “I think the work my former colleagues…
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Councilmember Tom Bailey schedules update on recall Tuesday
Colorado Springs Councilmember Tom Bailey announced that he will be meeting with the media after Tuesday’s City Council meeting ends to speak about the effort to recall him. In the announcement released Monday, Bailey said he would give a statement in the City Council chambers after the meeting was over and would then answer questions.…
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GUEST OPINION: Recall elections should never be used to overturn policy decisions
We are concerned. As a former Colorado secretary of state, county commissioner and city council member, and a former Colorado state representative and state senator, we are writing today as two of your fellow citizens who not only have been elected to office but also have played a large part in formulating and advancing the management and supervision of election law(s). Among those laws recall elections are among the most serious tools available to voters. They exist…
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Organizers of petition to recall City Councilmember Tom Bailey turn in signatures
A group of northern Colorado Springs residents turned in a stack of signed petition forms Monday afternoon in an attempt to recall City Councilmember Tom Bailey. Timothy Lewin, Paul Carson and Laura Wilkey were the main organizers who dropped off the packets at the City Clerk’s office. Lewin said the group had gathered “just under”…
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E. coli outbreak in Colorado: People sickened in 13 states; other fast food restaurants pull onions off menus
Yellow onions from a California company have been identified as the likely culprit in a recent E. coli outbreak that killed a Colorado man, led to dozens of hospitalizations and spurred voluntary recalls by a growing number of businesses that fear they may have received, or distributed, infected produce, according to reporting by The Associated…
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Gov. Jared Polis recall organizers in final push for signatures
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Before Tuesday ends, thousands of signed petition pages calling for the recall of Gov. Jared Polis should be submitted to petition custodians. But will they be enough? The effort to recall Polis requires 631,266 valid signatures, and recall organizers set a goal of 900,000 to…
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Gov. Jared Polis recall organizers in final push for signatures
Before Tuesday ends, thousands of signed petition pages calling for the recall of Gov. Jared Polis should be submitted to petition custodians. But will they be enough? The effort to recall Polis requires 631,266 valid signatures, and recall organizers set a goal of 900,000 to compensate for invalid signatures. Dismiss Polis, one of two groups…