“is to overturn the power and influence of the city’s public employee unions.”
That’s a good reason right there.
An interesting item came up also with this mayor. Some of the leaders of the recall group went to the mayor in (IIRC) January last year, to discuss concerns they had as to the Fire Department administration, and the mayor pooh-poohed their concerns, said he was confident everything was fine. So the recall group then went to the state auditor, who actually looked into it, and found that there were no valid records as to the fire department’s hours for payroll, vacation and sick time tracking, overtime, etc. Of course the fire chief said, “....you see our men on the news all of the time, putting out fires. I think their work speaks for itself...”, as if the fact that they put out fires disqualifies them from having to have time worked and payroll records. And the mayor just went along with it as if nothing was wrong. HOPING THE RECALL GOES THROUGH NEXT WEEK.