by Bob Walsh
There were two false starts. The City Clerk of the teeming metropolis of Stockton, CA twice turned down the recall petition aimed at Mayor Tubbs, citing flaws. The third time was the charm and the city clerk has declared that the current form of the petition meets the legal requirements and beginning on Monday the recall proponents will begin their attempt to collect about 16,000 valid signatures. They have 160 days in which to do so.
Tubbs received about 70% of the vote in November but that wasn't really much of a trick. The then-current mayor, Anthony Silva, was in very deep trouble with allegations of fraud and sexual shenanigans at a city-run summer camp. In addition a gun owned by him disappeared under odd circumstances and was used in a murder in the area. Idi Amin could have run against Silva and won.
In any event a combination of the folks who think that Tubbs has just plain done a crappy job so far and the people who believe he is trying to sell off the city owned golf courses and put in low rent housing may just be enough to push things over the top.
The recall committee is not endorsing any possible replacement for Tubbs.
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