Sarah Spoon and Chris Bangs recall, Canby, Oregon (2021)
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| 2021 Sarah Spoon & Chris Bangs recall Canby, Ore. |
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An effort to recall City Councillors Sarah Spoon and Chris Bangs did not qualify for the ballot in Canby, Oregon.[1] Organizers failed to submit the required number of signatures by the deadline on November 29, 2021.[2]
To read about other recall efforts related to the coronavirus and government responses to the pandemic, click here.
Recall supporters
Resident Stephanie Boyce, who ran unsuccessfully for city council in 2010, was among the recall organizers.[1]
The recall petition against Spoon read in part, "Her participation in productions of inappropriate and sexually demeaning videos and her posted video appearing to be impaired and using profanity attacking a sitting president makes her a poor choice to represent the city that values civility and good examples for the young people in our community."[1]
In the petition against Bangs, Boyce alleged Bangs showed "extreme hostility toward the rights and civil liberties of the people as evidenced by his acerbic and insulting comments made on May 5, 2021, during a City Council meeting.” In that meeting, Bangs had opposed a resolution urging the governor to end restrictions on businesses in Canby due to the coronavirus pandemic.[1] The full text of the resolution can be viewed here.
Recall opponents
In a statement to The Canby Current, Spoon said, "I have no idea what this accusation is based upon. ... I have never participated in anything of the sort. The only thing I can think of is that this citizen is upset about my support of my husband’s comedy music career, in which I briefly appeared on a silly joke song and music video he wrote about the weather. ... The entire production was just a project to bring laughter to a difficult time. ... It is pretty surreal that someone would suggest that I am not fit for office because of my participation in a comedy song.”[1]
Bangs said that his reasons for opposing the May 2021 resolution, calling on the governor to end coronavirus-related business restrictions, included the "large number of false statements upon which the resolution was based and the lack of clarity in regards to which restrictions were at issue." He added, "Another problem is that the resolution was supposed to protect our businesses, but there was not an upwelling of support for this by our business community. ... On the contrary, numerous restaurant and bar owners around town have told me their biggest problem isn’t the restrictions but simply a lack of employees. The people behind the recall petition did not agree with me on these points."[1]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in Oregon
For a recall election to have been scheduled, organizers needed to collect 1,151 signatures by November 29, 2021. The recall campaign ended after organizers were not able to collect the necessary signatures. The vacancy on the city council would have been filled by appointment.[1][2]
Ballotpedia covered 35 coronavirus-related recall efforts against 94 officials in 2022, accounting for 13% of recalls that year. This is a decrease from both 2020 and 2021. COVID-related recalls accounted for 37% of all recall efforts in both 2020 and 2021. In 2020, there were 87 COVID-related recalls against 89 officials, and in 2021, there were 131 against 214 officials.
The chart below compares coronavirus-related recalls to recalls for all other reasons in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
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