Recall of the Sacramento City Council, California (2010)

An effort to recall most members of the Sacramento City Council was announced in June 2010.

However, as of February 2011, the recall effort appears to have been abandoned.

Targeted city council members include Mayor Kevin Johnson and city council members Ray Tretheway, Sandy Sheedy, Steve Cohn, Robert King Fong, Kevin McCarty and Bonnie Pannell. City council members Robbie Waters and Lauren Hammond are not targeted.

Nationally-known Tea Party leader Mark Williams, a Sacramento resident, is a leader in the recall effort. The motivation for the recall is the vote that the Sacramento City Council took in early June to boycott Arizona in the wake of Arizona's passage of a tough immigration enforcement law. The two city council members who are not targeted in the recall at the two who did not cast a vote on the Sacramento decision to boycott Arizona. Robbie Waters voted "no" and Lauren Hammond was not at the meeting where the vote took place.

After the recall was launched, a separate effort, "Boycott Sacramento", was launched, also in response to the decision of the Sacramento City Council to boycott Arizona.

Rally about Arizona boycott

Paul Smith, a 5th Congressional District candidate, organized a rally in front of Sacramento's city hall in late June to protest the city council's vote to boycott Arizona. Smith said, "The city of Sacramento is a local city council and they should worry about local issues, not some state that they have no business being in." The rally was used to help generate support for the recall.

See also

• Recall campaigns in California
• Political recall efforts, 2010
• City council recalls

External links

• Recall Sacramento
• Boycott Sacramento for Boycotting Arizona
• Boycott Sacramento

References

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