By Lou Ponsi | Orange County Register – A recall campaign targeting three City Council members, accusing them of lack of leadership in the wake of the death of Kelly Thomas, appeared Thursday to have cleared its first significant hurdle.
The signature-gathering campaign aimed at ousting Councilmen F. Richard Jones, Pat McKinley and Don Bankhead collected thousands more signatures than the 10,552 qualified signatures – 15 percent of Fullerton voters – needed to stage a recall election.
Petitions to recall Jones, McKinley and Bankhead collected 17,587, 17,603 and 17,064 signatures, respectively.
Recall organizers Tony Bushala, a local business owner, and Chris Thompson, a Fullerton School District board member, turned the petitions into the city clerk Thursday afternoon. [CONTINUE READING]
