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unusual facts about recall election



John Nygren

In 2011, Nygren sought to run against incumbent Democratic state senator Dave Hansen, who was the subject of a recall election; but the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board ruled that he was two signatures short of the necessary 400 signatures on his nomination petition, and would not be on the ballot.

John R. Roden

City Councilman Meade McClanahan faced a recall election on March 19, 1946, brought about by public dissatisfaction in Los Angeles City Council District 13 with his auditorium appearances with political leader Gerald L.K. Smith, the founder of the America First Party (1944).

Ken Maddox

In 2008, he was elected to a seat on the Board of Trustees of the Capistrano Unified School District after the incumbent was removed by the electorate in a recall election.

Otto Junkermann

In 2011, he ran as a "fake Democrat" candidate in the Democratic primary against former Brown County Executive Nancy Nusbaum in the preamble to the recall election against Senator Robert Cowles.

Paul A. Brown

Brown served an unexpired term (1989–1990) created by the recall of Democratic Mayor Noel Byars.

Paul Horcher

Furious Republicans qualified a recall election against Horcher, which voters supported May 16, 1995, and replaced him with, coincidentally, Diamond Bar city councilman Gary Miller, who turned out to be a more loyal Republican.

Stalinism

The core principle of council communism is that the government and the economy should be managed by workers' councils composed of delegates elected at workplaces and recallable at any moment.


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Barry Goldwater, Jr.

Schwarzenegger went on to win the 2003 recall election to replace Gray Davis as Governor of California.

Bonnie Garcia

By 2004, Garcia had become a member of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's transition team after the recall election against Gray Davis and was named as one of California's delegates to the Republican National Convention.

James L. Usry

A Republican, Usry served as mayor from 1984 to 1990, after defeating Mayor Michael J. Matthews in a recall election.

Rosario Marin

Hoping to ride the popular sentiment that toppled Democratic Gov. Davis in the recall election and installed Republican moderate Arnold Schwarzenegger in his place, Marin officially became a candidate for the Republican nomination to the US Senate on December 2.

Tammy Bruce

In 2003, Bruce was appointed to serve on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Transition Team after his successful recall election against Gray Davis.

WDTK

WMBC was an early outlet for religious programming and gospel music in Detroit, but was probably most famous as the home of conservative radio commentator Jerry Buckley, who was shot dead in the lobby of the LaSalle Hotel in 1930 after successfully campaigning for a mayoral recall election in which then-mayor Charles Bowles lost.