To get the Chicago mayor recall mechanism question on ballots this fall, backers need to collect 56,463 petition signatures. So far, they have none.
Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a Chicago City Council meeting at City Hall on April 17, 2024. Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday blasted a nascent effort to establish a legal tool for voters to recall Chicago mayors, calling it “disingenuous” and saying it is backed by “extreme right wing” political rivals.
“It’s some dude from the suburbs who is mad about the diversity and the formation which we have put forward,” the mayor said, before laying out several of the progressive initiatives his administration has passed in his nearly one year in office, including a Regardless of his motivations, there’s little doubt that it’s a steep climb to get the referendum on the general election ballot in November.
Previous mayoral recall talks have gone nowhere, including when state Rep. La Shawn Ford, a Chicago Democrat, floated the idea offollowing his handling of the police shooting death of Laquan McDonald. In Buffalo Grove, though, a trustee was successfully recalled in 2010.
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