Shasta County releases special election costs to recall supervisors
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Cathy Darling Allen, Shasta County’s top elections official, has set the record straight on the cost of a special election to recall three supervisors.
In a news release, Darling Allen said she “has been informed of various claims about the cost of a special, local recall election are being discussed by the public. We take this opportunity to provide the following official information. This information was developed in response to a request from the Department of Finance.”
The estimated cost for a special stand-alone election to recall one supervisor is $400,000. That cost goes up to $520,000 for two supervisors and $640,000 for three supervisors, County Clerk and Registrar of Voters Darling Allen said in her statement last Friday.
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While there’s a mounting, messy statewide movement afoot to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom, here in Shasta County there are abundant threats to also recall some Shasta County Supervisors. And when I say
some, I mean that of the five supervisors, the North State recallers have all but one supervisor in their sights for the chopping block. The only one spared from the threat of recall is gun-shop manager Patrick Henry Jones of District 4.
To those beating the recall drum, Jones is the only
District 4 Supervisor Patrick Jones.
The summertime planting of the recall seed
Summertime 2020 was when the first public threats surfaced from angry citizens who vowed to recall Shasta County Board of Supervisors, ticked off at county leaders who were complying with state COVID-19 mandates.