‘A way to fight back’: Oak Grove woman gathered signatures to recall Frank White

Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr. said in a statement Monday after the county legislature passed an ordinance to call a special election that he believes the effort to recall him is a result of his opposition to a stadium sales-tax extension, which failed in April 2024.

But Stephanie Coen, one of the women who gathered thousands of signatures in the effort to oust White, said that’s simply not the case.

“I didn’t know anything at all about the stadium taxes,” Coen said Tuesday at her Oak Grove home. “When I opened my bill in early July of ‘23 and saw my excessive taxes, I thought, ‘This has to be a mistake.’”

Oak Grove woman gathered thousands of signatures to recall Frank White

She quickly discovered that it wasn’t — and she wasn’t alone in her anger…

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