The efforts to recall D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and Council Chairman Kwame Brown are official.
At a special meeting Monday morning, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics adopted petitions to recall the city’s top two leaders, but that doesn’t mean a recall vote is imminent.
To secure a citywide vote on the fates of Gray and Brown, organizers must first collect more than 45,000 signatures prior to Aug. 13. Only once those signatures are certified will elections officials schedule a vote.
Securing official action from the elections board is a step in the right direction for movement organizers, though, after they missed a mandatory elections board meeting and closing out the last campaign finance reporting period with $12 in cash remaining. Frederick Butler, the leader of the recall campaign, has estimated that he needs to raise at least $170,000 to mount a competitive effort.
Both Gray and Brown have dismissed the recall efforts as baseless.
