Court Rules Mayor’s Recall Can Go Forward
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From Times Wire Reports
The state Supreme Court ruled in Olympia that a petition drive to recall Spokane Mayor James E. West could proceed.
Shannon Sullivan, an unemployed mother, filed the petition in May, shortly after the Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane published articles detailing how West allegedly had met men online for sex.
West’s lawyers argued that the petition, bearing a single abuse-of-office charge, was factually and legally insufficient. They had lost a lower court ruling.
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