Small Carroll County town wants a recall option
New Windsor residents dissatisfied with town leaders
In the quaint town of New Windsor, officials have sold the municipal ball fields to a cement company, purchased a dilapidated inn with taxpayer money for development that hasn't happened and stuck residents with the bill for a nearly $5 million wastewater treatment plant.
While the town council is up for election next year, angry residents aren't waiting to express their displeasure. They're pushing a measure to allow the recall of local officials. Petitioners say they aren't targeting the entire council or any one official: They want their petition campaign to send a message to all.
"We are not Occupy New Windsor," said Rebecca Merson, who moved to Atlee Ridge, one of the town's new developments, in 2004. "We are not asking to recall anyone specific. There is no coup. We just want the ability to recall an official who is not doing the job."
Rebellion in this corner of Carroll County mirrors the citizen activism that has led to petition drives from across the political spectrum — against the state's Dream Act, which would allow in-state tuition for the children of illegal immigrants, and the recently approved same-sex-marriage law — as well as challenges to some U.S. corporations.
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Salisbury already has the ability to recall an official.
ReplyDeleteBut thanks to Barrie Tilghman, it's pretty impossible to do. Barrie didn't like what Brenda Cox did.
This is an EXCELLENT idea!!
ReplyDeleteWho knows how to start the online petition?
Ireton, Mitchell & Shields need to go. Ireton is nothing more than Tilghman and Dunn redux and we've all seen how Shields and Mitchell vote.
ReplyDeleteI sure do wish that someone with the know how would get this going to get Ireton Mitchell and Shields recalled. Does no one know how?
ReplyDeleteYou can have apetition here, but not online. Actual signatures are needed.
ReplyDeleteDo it here and the King and Queen of online (Ireton and Mitchell) will drool to recall people like Cohen and Campbell.
ReplyDeleteMitchell already held her little press conference of accusations and got front page headlines.
Dunn and Shields are filing ethics complaints. These are vicious people. You want to make it easy for them?
I believe in recall, but it should be hard to do. Otherwise, the power hungry like the ones you want to recall will recall the ones you don't.
8:29Pm you are quite mistaken, Ireton is the Queen.
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