Bosley Recall Update
Filed Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 12:00 PM
The effort to recall 3rd Ward Ald. Freeman Bosley, Sr. is on hold as the recallers and election officials wait for a judge to decide the legality of an Election Board practice of allowing aldermen to get signatures removed from a recall petition by way of signed affidavits.
On June 30, Citizens to Recall Aldermen Bosley turned in approximately 1,100 signatures to the Board. Bosley was subsequently successful in getting 339 people who had originally signed the recall petition to then sign an affidavit asking for their names to be removed.
The recallers claim that since such an allowance for removal is nowhere in the City’s charter — which outlines the recall procedure — that the Election Board “exceeded the scope of power delegated to it” by allowing it and therefore violated the civil rights of the recallers.
A lawsuit has been filed seeking to have those signatures put back onto the petition — without which the petition will fall short of the required number of signatures. A temporary restraining order was issued last week preventing the St. Louis Board of Elections from certifying or removing any more signatures from the petition to recall Bosley.
A hearing in this matter has been set for August 21.
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