A group of residents trying to oust District Attorney John
Sarsfield from office re-filed a required notice that includes
reasons for a recall campaign and nearly double the required
minimum of 20 proponents’ signatures.
A group of residents trying to oust District Attorney John Sarsfield from office re-filed a required notice that includes reasons for a recall campaign and nearly double the required minimum of 20 proponents’ signatures.
They gathered more than enough signatures to avoid problems with invalid addresses, which helped to halt their first attempt.
When they served Sarsfield with the notice July 14, five of the proponents out of 22 had listed invalid addresses and there were too many words explaining reasons for a recall.
They collected 15 more signatures than last time and all 37 checked out, said elections official Lillian Perrera.
The committee filed the notice July 21. Sarsfield has until Wednesday to file a response.
Then recall proponents have 10 days to file two copies of the petition they plan to use to recruit the needed 20 percent of registered voters’ signatures to force a recall election.
Circulators of the petition would then have 120 days from that point to collect those signatures. Previously the Elections Office had said the committee would have to get about 4,800 endorsements. Officials clarified Friday that the actual number needed is 5,201.
