• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • News
  • Events
  • Donate
  • About
  • Contact

The Ballenger Report

Bill Ballenger: #1 Political Pundit in Michigan
All the Truth, All the Time
Michigan's Only "No Spin Zone"
Who is Running for What? Who Will Win?
Can Democrats Seize Total Control of Michigan Government in 2022?
Flint Water Crisis: What's Really Going On!
Politicians
Politicians
You are here: Home / Uncategorized / Flint Mayor Weaver Faces November Recall Election

Flint Mayor Weaver Faces November Recall Election

August 5, 2017 by tbreport Leave a Comment

     Genesee County Clerk John Gleason announced that a recall election would take place this coming November 7 against Flint Mayor Karen Weaver after his office’s review of recall petition signatures determined that organizers had obtained a sufficient number to hold the vote.

Weaver had challenged the recall effort against her on July 31, contending that up to 1,200 signatures that had previously been accepted by Gleason should be considered invalid due to irregularities or alterations that were made to either the signatures or the dates on the petitions.Gleason stated that his office performed a detailed examination of the recall documents and determined that a final total of 5,870 verified signatures had been submitted. A total of 5,750 verified signatures were needed for the recall question to move forward. The recall election of Weaver will take place on November 7, and the filing deadline for candidates wishing to run against the mayor will be August 14. An unlimited number of candidates are eligible to appear on the ballot in addition to Weaver. Whoever gets the most votes will serve out the balance of Weaver’s current term.

Recall organizer Arthur Woodson’s current effort was his second attempt to recall Weaver this year and the fourth attempt made against Weaver since November 2016. All four efforts have focused on the city’s approval of a waste management contract with one company while a contract with another company was in effect. The previous three recall petitions were rejected by the county elections board due to a lack of clarity in recall language.

Weaver was first elected mayor in 2015 after defeating incumbent Dayne Walling, and is the city’s first female mayor. Flint is located about 70 miles northwest of Detroit and is home to just under 100,000 residents. The beleaguered city has been the focus of a nationally-publicized “water crisis” for nearly three years.

****************************************************

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Newsletter Sign-up

Receive The Ballenger Report in your inbox!

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Follow on twitter

Tweets by @Bill_Ballenger
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Upcoming Ballenger Events

  • No events
  • © 2023 · The Ballenger Report · Login · Sitemap

    Support The Ballenger Report - Contribute Today!

    Thank you for visiting! You have let us know that what we produce about Michigan politics and government matters to you. More people than ever are reading and listening to what we put on our news site, and the 2022 election was especially momentous. Your support makes all the difference.

    As you know, unlike many news websites, we haven’t put up a paywall. We want to keep our journalism as open as we can, but we need to ask for your help. We are editorially independent, meaning we set our own agenda. Our journalism remains truly free from commercial influence or bias. We are not subsidized. We don’t put up paid advertisements. No one edits our Editor. No one steers our opinion.

    But The Ballenger Report (TBR) takes time, money and hard work to produce. If everyone who reads or listens to our material — and likes it! — helps to support it, our future would be much more secure.

    Whatever you might want to contribute will help TBR continue. Thank you.

    Contribute to The Ballenger Report