Recall campaigns

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2008

Successful

• Sheila Benecke recall (2008). This recall election in the Capistrano Unified School District was held on June 24, 2008.
• Marlene Draper recall (2008).

Unsuccessful

• Jeff Denham recall (2008). California state legislator, election scheduled for June 3, 2008.

Pending, on ballot

• Andy Dillon recall (2008). Speaker of the House, Michigan. Ruling in Bogaert v. Land means the recall will be on the November 4, 2008 ballot.

Insufficient signatures

• Mike Fahey recall (2008). Mayor of Omaha, Nebraska. Failed to collect enough signatures.
• Mark Funkhouser recall (2008). Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri. Failed.
• Kwame Kilpatrick recall (2008). Mayor of Detroit, Michigan
• Susan Merrow recall (2008).^[1]
• Michelle Strong recall (2008). School board member, Clayton County schools, Georgia.
• Sandra Scott recall (2008). School board member, Clayton County schools, Georgia.
• Southfield school board members (2008).^[2]
• See also 2008 recall campaigns

2007

• Robert Spangler recall (2007). Doraville, Georgia, city council.
• Shelly Wilson recall (2007), Chatham School District, Alaska, school board member. Recalled.
• Edward Gamble recall (2007), Chatham School District school board member. Recalled.
• Irene Paul recall (2007), Chatham School District school board member. Recalled.

2006

• Kathleen Blanco recall (2006), Governor. Failed to collect enough signatures.
• Aaron Broussard recall (2006), Jefferson parish president in Louisiana. Collected 49,000 signatures; short of the 88,000 needed for an election.

2005

• Phaedra Graham recall (2005). Mayor of Riverdale, Georgia. Failed.
• Paul Howard recall (2005). District attorney, Atlanta, Georgia.
• Saundra McFadden-Weaver recall (2005). This recall of a Third District Councilwoman in Kansas City failed.
• James West recall (2005). This recall of the mayor of Spokane, Washington, was successful.

2003

• Gray Davis recall (2003). Gray Davis, governor of California, was successfully recalled.
• Nativo Lopez recall (2003). Lopez, board member of the Santa Ana Unified School District in California, was successfully recalled.
• Huey Dean recall, 2003. Mayor of Homer, Louisiana.^[3]

1999

• Dave Meneley recall (1999). The effort to recall Dave Meneley, the sheriff in Shawnee County, Kansas, failed.

1996

• Doris Allen recall (1996), California. Recall was successful.
• George Petak recall (1996), Wisconsin. Recall was successful.

1995

• Mike Machado recall (1995), State senator, California. Recall was unsuccessful.
• Paul V. Horcher recall (1995), State senator, California. Recall was successful.

1994

• David Roberti recall (1994), State senator, California. Recall failed.

1993

• Bob Garfinkle recall (1993), City Council, Union City, California. Recall failed by one vote.

1992

• Covina City Council recall (1992). All five members of the city council were successfully recalled, including Henry Morgan,Richard Gratton, John King, Chris Lancaster and Frieda Richardson. (Also see Covina Utility Tax (June 2008).)

1988

• Evan Mecham recall (1988), Govenor of Arizona. Mecham was impeached and removed from office before the recall election took place.

1983

• Phil Mastin recall (1983), Michigan state senator, successfully recalled.
• David Serotkin recall (1983), Michigan state senator, successfully recalled.

1978

• Dennis Kucinich recall (1978). Kucinich escaped this recall.

1967

• Frank Church recall (1967). Unsuccessful.

1952

• J.E. Bennett recall (1952), Portland, Oregon county commissioner. Recall was successful.

1921

• Lynn Frazier recall (1921). Lynn Frazier, Governor of North Dakota, was successfully recalled.

1914

• Jeremiah Robinson recall (1914). A successful recall of the mayor of Boise, Idaho.

1916

• Edwin Grant recall (1914), California. Recall was successful.

1913

• Marshall Black recall (1913), California. Recall was successful.
• James Owens recall (1913), California. Recall was unsuccessful.

1911

• J.H. Graham recall (1911). This effort to recall the Mayor of Wichita, Kansas was successful.

References

1. ↑ Bethel Citizen, "Petition calls for Merrow ouster"
2. ↑ Southfield school millage makes ballot, recall doesn't
3. ↑ Guardian Journal, "Petition appears to be short of valid signatures to recall mayor", August 28, 2003