What’s the Delay with Port Loyola Recall Petitions?

Former Port Loyola Area Representative Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez called another press conference today, a little over a month after delivering a sheaf of signed petitions to the Governor General back in January to trigger a recall referendum.  Martinez is seeking to have the voters of Port Loyola recall Gilroy Usher’s seat in the House of Representatives via a referendum.  But he is disheartened that several weeks have gone by and he is yet to get a formal response from the Governor General, despite what he believes are legitimate signatures that satisfy the requirement to trigger the recall mechanism.

 

Anthony “Boots” Martinez, Former Area Rep, Port Loyola

“I am very disappointed in terms of what has transpired.  The petition was delivered on the sixteenth of January, 2024, and as the law allows the governor general to pass it to the Chief Elections Officer forthwith.  Upon checking on Friday, well from Thursday, I called the Office of the Governor General and said to the secretary that I believe by law that the answer should be forthcoming by tomorrow which was the sixteenth, Friday, the sixteenth.  Friday morning, I called and the secretary’s response was that let her check.  After waiting on the phone for like two minutes, she came back and said no response.  I called again about minutes to three that afternoon and it was the same thing, no response.  So I tend to mean say, the month should expire, in my view, checking with attorneys and so, with attorney, Mr. Dean Barrow.  Dean Barrow said, probably, it could mean the sixteenth is up to twelve o’clock Friday night.  Fair.  I called yesterday morning, no response back from Elections and Boundaries.  That is the answer I get.  Called this morning again and no response back.”