From the AP:
“Judge: Petition to recall
Seattle mayor can move forward”
A King County Superior Court
judge has approved a petition for an election to recall Seattle Mayor Jenny
Durkan. The Seattle Times reports the ruling Friday on charges filed by a group
of five people last month comes after weeks of local protests against racism
and police brutality — sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Once
any recall petition is approved, signatures are needed to qualify for a special
election ballot. The petitioners must, within 180 days, collect valid
signatures from a number of voters equal to 25% of the votes cast in the last
election. In this case, signatures from more than 50,000 Seattle voters would
be needed. The Durkan petitioners’ recall effort accuses the mayor of
“endanger(ing) the peace and safety of the community” by allowing police to
“leak false information about fabricated crimes and threats to the media” and
issuing a citywide curfew without sufficient notice to the public. The
petitioners also accused Durkan of restricting certain property rights in
downtown Seattle and Capitol Hill, the neighborhood where many of the protests
took place. In a response Saturday, Durkan’s chief of staff, Stephanie Formas,
said the mayor “consistently has acted to protect the City’s public health and
safety and to respect the constitutional rights to peaceful protesters.” In her
ruling Friday, Judge Mary E. Roberts dismissed six of the seven charges put
forward as “insufficient,” but allowed one — which accuses Durkan of allowing
tear gas and other crowd control weapons to be used during the coronavirus
pandemic — to proceed “more narrowly than alleged.” The judge did not rule on
whether the allegation was true. “This court’s role in this case is limited,”
she wrote. The mayor could appeal the ruling, but Formas did not say if she
would.
^ I hope this recall petition
gets the required signatures needed and that the Seattle Mayor gets recalled.
She has endangered the people of Seattle by allowing the lawlessness, violence
and murder in Seattle’s Purge Zone for 3 weeks. ^
https://apnews.com/7d3a77a8e6c73a19630da1dbe52272bd
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