As I post this, Councilmember Betty Rexford recall proponents led by Steve Vaus are announcing at the Poway City Council meeting that they have collected about 2,200 of the 5,657 petition signatures required to qualify for the ballot.  This is with only 30 days elapsed of the 120 days allowed in which to collect signatures. 

These are raw numbers, but recall proponents indicate that their internal check of the petitions shows an extremely high rate of qualified registered Poway voters.  The number of signatures collected thus far is striking, given the organizing time spent in the first two weeks of the process. 

….BREAKING NEWS….

It’s her Party, she can leave if she wants to.

If you’re Councilwoman Betty Rexford, facing recall in Poway for a littany of wrongs (see all the related SD Rostra posts), and you want to avoid or at least avert a weeks-long standing invitation by the local GOP to attend a meeting to give your side of things, what do you do?

Well, if you’re simple-minded (politically speaking, of course), you might think that if you’re no longer a Republican, then the Party won’t be interested anymore in potentially getting involved in your recall election.  Uhhh, you’d be wrong.

In the midst of a recall effort against Poway Councilmember Betty Rexford, additional compelling evidence against her has been uncovered.

In September 2006, Poway City Manager Rod Gould felt compelled to send a confidential memo to Rexford warning that her “recent actions constitute a conflict of interest and interference with City administration.” 

The memo speaks for itself.  Read it here.