MOHAVE COUNTY – The proposed recall of District 4 Mohave County Sup Jean Bishop has ended quietly. Robert Hall, owner of Great American Pizza in Golden Valley, did not submit petitions by the Feb. 24 deadline so his campaign to oust Bishop from office by recall is over, at least for now.
Hall pulled papers last Oct. and he needed 2,998 valid signatures to advance the recall. Hall has complained for months that Bishop directed enforcement heat on his business for coronavirus compliance issues.
Bishop denied any involvement in regulatory enforcement. She said she is grateful that the recall window has closed.
“I’m very pleased the voters of Mohave County see the value and hard work I have brought to District 4 and didn’t buy into the useless allegations that were used as a basis for a recall attempt,” Bishop said in a statement she issued after the petition filing deadline passed.
Another Kingman resident targeted in a separate ouster effort is also free of another recall launched last fall. The Kingman and Mohave Conservatives Political Action Committee (PAC) had until Feb. 17 to submit the 1,438 valid signatures needed to advance the proposed recall of Kingman City Council member Jamie Scott Stehly.
City Clerk Annie Meredith said petitions that PAC Treasurer Steve Robinson on Feb. 17 contained only 992 signatures that had not been verified.
“You have failed to provide the minimum number of signatures required as prescribed in Arizona Revised Statutes in order to recall an election official,” Meredith wrote in her notice to PAC Chairman Stanley Hicks.
Mohave County Recorder Kristi Blair said her review of other petitions proposing the unrelated recall of Kingman Mayor Jen Miles is nearly complete. Blair said she hopes to announce sometime this week whether the Miles recall advances or dies for insufficient signature totals.
Miles recall proponent James Coffman submitted 2,367 signatures, nearly 1,000 more than the number of valid signatures required to possibly subject the Mayor to recall.
Dave Hawkins
