(Seattle Municipal Archives)Despite numerous threats over the years, Seattle has only twice recalled a mayor. Recall petitioners said Uhlman had hired and refused to remove an incompetent Vickery, who was driving the utility into the ground through “managerial incompetence.” Vickery had gotten crosswise with the utility workers and their unions by using outside contract employees in apparent violation of the city charter and civil service rules. The Black community had entered a period of frequent marches and intense activism demanding equality and justice. Amazingly, it was the third of three attempts to recall him, according to documents in the city’s Municipal Archives. The Boeing recession — at the time, the worst downturn in the city since the Great Depression, with double-digit unemployment and massive layoffs — kicked off as Uhlman entered office. The clock on that recall effort had run out.Voters attempted to recall Wes Uhlman three times. V, Sec. Petitions were approved for circulation on July 10, 2020. The second charge read, “Mayor Durkan endangered the peace and safety of the community and violated her duties under RCW 35.18.200, Seattle Charter Art. Support came from Metro Transit workers, City Light’s electricians and members of the Public Service League representing thousands of municipal employees. ©2020 Cascade Public Media. He definitely thinks it cost him his bid for the governorship.The issue was and is, “Who is going to run city government?” he says.
Of the 66 officials whose recalls made it to the ballot, 34 were recalled for a rate of 52%. On May 18, City Hall’s American flag flew at half-mast on the mayor’s orders to honor the students killed during an anti-war protest at Kent State University in Ohio. Observers claimed he had a local image problem and was “too slick” an operator. His youth seemed an asset compared with an older, clubby civic “establishment.” Many hoped that he could modernize Seattle into a more diverse, less provincial community and bring reforms to a stagnant city government. The tragedy filled Seattle’s streets and freeways with demonstrators, and some veterans groups viewed Uhlman's flag move as a symbolic and illegal way to “placate” demonstrators. Petitions were approved for circulation on July 10, 2020. He beat the July 1975 recall vote by a 2-to-1 margin.In the short term, and for the remainder of his time in office, Uhlman’s win strengthened his political hand. It is still uncertain if Previous successful recall efforts targeted both pro-vice Mayor Hiram Gill, who was ousted from office by reformers and newly enfranchised women in 1911 (he later made a comeback to the mayor’s office), and Frank Edwards, the "business man mayor" who defeated Seattle’s first female mayor, Bertha Knight Landes, in 1928 but was recalled three years later for firing the popular head of the city’s public utility, City Light.Most recently, in the summer of 1975, a special election gave Seattleites an opportunity to dump a young, progressive mayor named Wesley “Wes” Uhlman. The recall effort claimed that Uhlman had hired and retained Hundley knowing he was “unqualified and incompetent” to carry out his duties, and that, in firing Richards, Uhlman had made false statements about Richards and had covered up Hundley’s incompetence. The Mayor believes the remaining claim will be dismissed.”A separate recall effort, relating to accusations of misuse of police force during protests, was deemed insufficient by the King County Superior Court on July 10.The Washington Constitution allows for the recall of elected officials if they violate their oath of office or “in commission of some act or acts of malfeasance or misfeasance while in office.” To put a recall on the ballot, recall supporters have 180 days to collect valid signatures equal to 25% of the total vote for the office in the last regular election.In 2019, Ballotpedia covered a total of 151 recall efforts against 230 elected officials.
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