Activist Clay Chastain Demands Mayor Q's Resignation Over Petition Delay
Our reason for covering this story when every other local news outlet opted out. Here's a quick summary of a recent argument by longtime transit activist Clay Chastain.
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Our reason for covering this story when every other local news outlet opted out.
Here's a quick summary of a recent argument by longtime transit activist Clay Chastain.
Chastain argues that under Section 703 of the City Charter, the Mayor and City Council have a mandatory, non-discretionary ("ministerial") duty to place clerk-certified petitions on the ballot.
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Our reason for covering this story when every other local news outlet opted out. Here's a quick summary of a recent argument by longtime transit activist Clay Chastain. Chastain argues that under Section 703 of the City Charter, the Mayor and City Council have a mandatory, non-discretionary ("ministerial") duty to place clerk-certified petitions on the ballot.
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- Chastain contends that bypassing this step is an illegal act of malfeasance.
- In his scathing presser, Chastain claims that once the Committee of Petitioners (COP) submitted formal Demand Letters on September 1st, any legal 60-day waiting or review period became void.
- By failing to schedule the vote during the September 3rd hearing, the city allegedly broke its own petition-governing laws.
- Chastain asserts that sending the Monorail petition to the legal department to draft a ballot title is legally invalid.
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The argument states that the ballot language w...
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