The effort to oust two Orange Unified School District board members has moved one step forward.
The Orange County Registrar of Voters certified the signatures in the petition to recall Board President Rick Ledesma and Trustee Madison Miner on Friday, Oct. 20.
There were 15,016 and 14,736 valid signatures submitted to recall Ledesma and Miner, respectively, to the Registrar on Sept. 27 — over a month before they were due in order to ensure the recall elections would be eligible for the March 5 election primary.
Neither Ledesma nor Miner responded to requests for comment.
But Miner previously said: “It’s essential to note that protecting students is my sole purpose, and the radical recall movement has made it clear that their quest for power over the children is nothing more than a strong political maneuver to influence and shape the children of OUSD.”
“This has nothing to do with protecting or educating children,” she said in September.
The certificate of sufficiency will be submitted at the next Orange Unified board meeting, scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 16. The board will either then or within 14 days of that meeting issue an order stating when the recall election will be held. If the board fails to act, the Registrar would then determine the date of the election.
The election must be held no less than 88 days and no more than 125 days after the issuance of an order for the election, and it can scheduled in concordance with a regularly scheduled election — in this case, the March primary.
“We look forward to ending the chaos, staff exodus and culture wars brought to our district by Rick Ledesma and Madison Miner, and repairing the trust between our community and school board that has been broken by lies, corruption, lack of transparency and fiscal waste,” said OUSD Recall, the group responsible for the recall efforts. “Students and teachers should be a priority over politics.”
The notice of intent to recall Miner was filed…
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