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Richard Lee Recall Swings into motion

by Tryan Hartill

As posted earlier on NCO, Clatsop Citizens for Open Government is starting the process of recalling District 3 Clatsop County Commissioner Richard Lee.

As of this evening, Ccfog has filed the statement that will appear on the ballot next to the “yes or “no” fill in boxes.

Clatsop County Election Clerk Nicole Williams asked the group for more information and expects them to return with the final document by the end of the day.

Recall Timeline

Williams must then OK the ballot statement. If she does, the group can start gathering the 468 valid signatures needed immediately. This number represents 15% of the total votes in the last Gubernatorial election. The group has 90 days to collect the signatures and turn them into the County Election office. If the valid number is above 467, Richard Lee has 5 days to either resign, or write up his own statement that will appear next to the recall statement on the ballot.

If Richard Lee turns in a statement within 5 days, the Election Clerk has 35 days to set an election.

“We like to hold these on Tuesdays since most people are used to voting on Tuesdays”, Williams said.

All recalls require a majority vote, and recalls do not require a 50% turnout. If the Election results in a tie, the recall fails.

According to the Clatsop County Charter, if a Commissioner is recalled or resigns, the Commission appoints a person from the said District within 45 days. The person is appointed through the end of the previous term. In Richard Lee’s case, his term is up in December of 2010.

Also in 2010, the County Clerk will look at the 5 Districts and see if any boundaries need to be changed. Mostly she will be looking at the population numbers in each District and make sure they are near the same.

District 3 covers Astoria east of Fifth Street, southeast of Denver and south of platted West Niagara Avenue, and extends east to 28th Street. Also includes Miles Crossing, Jeffers Gardens, Fort Clatsop, Lewis and Clark, Youngs River, Olney, Green Mountain and part of Walluski.

Williams wanted to make sure that folks know that District 3 does not cover Seaside, Arch Cape, or Cannon Beach, as reported earlier from another local news source.

NCO also asked Williams if Helen Westbrook was in District 3 and whether she could file if the Commissioner in District 3 resigned or was recalled. “Yes, 28th Street is in District 3 and she would be able to turn in a application” Williams said.

UPDATE

Richard Lee Issues Statement to NCO

The following is a word for word (as in no editing or combining quotes that seem to be so popular lately) statement from Richard Lee when we asked for him to comment on the recall effort:

“As a lifelong resident of Clatsop County I truly believe I represent the silent majority of constituents who want and deserve economic growth, affordable housing, and family wage jobs, along with a fiscally responsible government in a livable and friendly community that your children, my children and our grand-children can continue to live in and enjoy. I am committed to this philosophy.”

Jan 23, 05:39 pm | Tryan Hartill
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13 comments on this article (post your own)

1 On Jan 23, 07:11 pm, Astorianna wrote:

Lordy, can’t we recall some of the others, too, before they sell the county to LNG interests?

2 On Jan 23, 09:54 pm, Bunny Von Munchausen wrote:

He’s right about the silent majority. Most everyone I come into contact with who have been here all their lives or many years have had more than enough of Cindy Price’s megalomaniac petty b.s.

3 On Jan 24, 05:30 am, The Guy Who Writes This wrote:

As for their committee, there is Rocca, and a guy from Berkenfeld, which isn’t in district 3, nor is it in our County. So who else in in this group? Care to guess?

4 On Jan 25, 05:16 pm, Pete wrote:

So far, Marc Auerbach from the pristine back deck of his Birkenfeld home did inkind website hosting and paid for the radio spots, and has backed the whole shebang, except a little ole in-kind contribution from “self-employed” “art installer” Scott Reuter for photo copies. No sour grapes for not being re-appointed to the planning commission from Auerbach! Whining from McGee that Autio shouldn’t have been appointed because he may have had a pro-LNG sign in his yard? No whining about Auerbach’s blatant prejudices until he wasn’t reappointed.

http://www.nwprc.org/
http://www.auerhaus.org/

Beautiful home, beautiful websites. Glad HE can afford it and wants to keep HIS county, HIS way of life, for HIMself according to HIS plan.

This is the “internal polling” that the CCFOG has done to ascertain that most of us want Richard Lee out. That’s why he was voted for three times. What was Marquis’ whine? Why do people keep voting him into office if he’s so hated? At least Lee has been running against someone.

5 On Jan 25, 05:37 pm, tee-hee-hic!!! wrote:

Little “tipsy” this afternoon aren’t you pete?

6 On Jan 25, 06:00 pm, Prarie Pup wrote:

What the fock is an “art installer”?

7 On Jan 26, 01:32 am, Pete wrote:

Ask tee-hee-hic!!! Its what he does when he isn’t inferring people are drunk, or when he isn’t drinking himself. Yawn. He just gets so darn angry he could scratch my eyes out, but since its over the ‘net he has to keep it to catty remarks.
He’s working on a script right now to post on his website against the Rust’s Fly on the Wall so that should keep him busy for a while. Until he starts crying, once again, because he just can’t make his characters act funny. See, he’s not as lucky as Rust’s Flies. Those flies have so much shit to work with and poor scooter has to stretch so far to make all of his up.

8 On Jan 26, 08:26 am, tee-hee-hic!!! wrote:

So, it’s not spirits afterall, it’s genetic huh?

9 On Jan 27, 10:48 am, bored with people who won't stay on thread wrote:

tee-hee-hic!!! ask the wife to make an appointment to up the medication, otherwise dialog about the thread topic. we know we were told to play nice with you because of your problems but grow up or go back to your own blogs.

10 On Jan 27, 11:14 am, tee-hee-hic!!! wrote:

Pete started it, not me.
I re-pete, Pete, whoever the hell he is, started it but what else is new?
Back to the subject.
Recall Richard Lee and his 4 colleagues?
Hell Yeah!
One at a time and quickly.
Who’s next?

11 On Jan 27, 11:28 am, James G. Blaine wrote:

“Who’s next”?

Let’s review, shall we?

Lee – Oregonian
Samuleson – Oregonian
Roberts – Oregonian
Hazen – Oregonian
Patrick – CALIFORNICATOR?!?

Looks like a no-brainer to us.
Send Sam Patrick packing!!

12 On Jan 27, 12:02 pm, tee-hee-hic!!! wrote:

So be it.
Start the pertition process now.
That’s District-4

13 On Jan 27, 02:27 pm, whomever the hell? wrote:

Pete “started” what? writing about the thread topic? tee-hee-hic “whoever the hell that is”, (as if we didn’t know) is smoking his brussels sprout lunch, again. Sammy is up for re-election in May. See we don’t waste recalls on frivolous things here. most of us don’t have a bunch of money burning holes in our pockets. We’ve just been through a storm and we see the timber and all of our tax revenue laying on the ground, both county and what would have been collected for county on private. We know there isn’t much to be spent on this kind of WASTE. We let democracy take its course. We let people make mistakes. We let them try to right them and if they don’t THEN we don’t vote for them the next time they come up for election. Why don’t you try reading, no better yet, why don’t you try understanding Kemboi’s essay?

Recalls for no damn good reason are a waste of taxpayers money and a subversion of democracy. This recall is a vendetta. Lee was picked because he dared to win against Marquis’ wife. This is a grudge match, pure and simple. FOG it up all you want, we know what’s going on.

If the rest of the commissioners keep getting threats from the likes of you they should go ahead and reappoint Lee to serve out his term, if the recall goes through, which is within their legal right. Better yet, they should appoint Jennifer. Then she should kick Gamm’s ***!

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