Recall Update - Who's Next?

A source indicates that the recall effort is well on its way to collecting the required number of signatures to force a recall of Mayor Dee Margo.

Multiple sources have also indicated that the plan is to go for a recall against two other city representatives. I'll tell you who the other two are in a minute.

A source close to the recall effort told me last night at an event where signatures were being collected to recall Mayor Dee Margo that they have exceeded 1,000 signatures so far. In order to successfully recall Mayor Margo, the petition circulators have to collect 7,000 signatures in 60 days. That means the effort has to get 117 signatures per day for the next 60 days. So they are off to a pretty strong start and if they can sustain that effort, they should be able to make some history.

My sources also indicated that following the attainment of a sufficient number of signatures to recall Mayor Margo, they will then focus on a recall effort against City Rep Cassandra Hernandez Brown and Dr. Sam Morgan.

It looks like their plan is to get the required signatures against all the candidates so that the next election is a gonna be a recall election for at least three members of council.

Former Mayor Oscar Leeser still has a term of eligibility to be Mayor and is a presumptive mayoral candidate. Its hard to see how anyone else would stand a chance against him - certainly not David Saucedo or Emma Acosta. That reminds me, I have a fun story about Acosta in a future post.

The real question is if the sufficient number of signatures are collected for the recall, does Margo fight for his seat in an election against Leeser? I think he has to and Forma Group will likely push him hard to do so. But its gonna take a lot of money to fight Leeser. A lot.

Getting way ahead of ourselves here but City Reps Cassandra Hernandez wild Dr. Morgan would have to fight for their seats. Hernandez's ego won't let her just walk away and Jeremy Jordan will likely run her campaign. Jordan couldn't campaign his way out of a paper bag and Hernandez protected the street name of a Confederate traitor over naming a street after Dolores Huerta. I'm sure any potential opponent would pounce on that.

Dr. Morgan is former Special Forces soldier. People that are special forces aren't known for quitting or having a hard time with adversity. He had to run twice for his seat before he was able to win it. Its unlikely he'd just hand it over to someone else.

Its all about who runs in those elections.

Providing that the petition efforts are successful in the first place.