By KAREN VELIE The City of Grover Beach violated a judge's order to approve Grover H2O's petition to recall Councilman Daniel Rushing. City Clerk Wendi
The City of Grover Beach violated a judge’s order to approve Grover H2O’s petition to recall Councilman Daniel Rushing. City Clerk Wendi Sims had until Tuesday at 5 p.m. to approve the petition.in her rejection of recall petitions for Mayor Karen Bright and councilmen Daniel Rushing and Zach Zimmerman. Sims refused to approve the recall petitions unless certain statements she found false or misleading were removed from the petitions.
Judge Craig van Rooyen agreed and ordered Sims to approve the petition to recall Rushing. Even though the suit noted issues with each recall petition, because both Bright and Zimmerman are up for election in November, the suit focused on Rushing’s recall petition.During a May 28 City Council meeting, the council agreed to ratify Lomeli’s appeal, before telling him to withdraw the notice of appeal.
Grover H2O’s attorney Ellis Raskin of Hanson Bridgett sent a letter on Wednesday morning demanding the city approve the recall petition by 5 p.m. today. If the city fails to comply, the group plans to ask the court to force the city to obey the order. In addition, Grover H2O plans to seek sanctions against the city.
In order to qualify the recall for the November ballot, the group needs to quickly gather signatures. “The law allows 60 days to collect signatures for this petition,” Auer said. “However, the city’s actions now leave us with just five days to do so if we are to avoid a $300,000 special election. The city has already illegally blocked a November recall of Mayor Bright and Councilman Zimmerman. All we ask is that the voters of Grover Beach be given their legal right to decide this matter for themselves.
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