( KRON ) — Following the successful recalls of the Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price last year, another Bay Area recall effort is officially underway. On Thursday, it was announced that the campaign to recall Fairfax Mayor Lisel Blash and Vice Mayor Stephanie Hellman was approved to begin gathering signatures.
According to a statement from the recall effort, paperwork to begin the recall was submitted to the Fairfax Town Clerk by a “community coalition of concerned citizens, local business owners, little league parents, and community leaders.” The paperwork was approved on Tuesday.
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“Our campaign is ready and energized to begin gathering signatures from Fairfax so we can recall Mayor Lisel Blash and Vice Mayor Stephanie Hellman,” said recall proponent Sean Fitzgerald. According to Fitzgerald, Blash and Hellman have “routinely violated the public trust with their unwillingness to address the homeless encampment crisis in Contratti Park, their support of extreme and divisive policies like rent control.”
Fitzgerand also accused the pair of “mismanagement of taxpayer dollars,” and “constant lack of transparency and integrity.”…