{"id":28760,"date":"2016-09-14T08:03:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T15:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/judge-denies-spokane-mayor-recall-effort\/"},"modified":"2016-09-14T08:03:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T15:03:31","slug":"judge-denies-spokane-mayor-recall-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/judge-denies-spokane-mayor-recall-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge denies Spokane mayor recall effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SPOKANE, Wash. <\/strong>\u2014 An effort to recall Spokane Mayor David Condon because of his firing of former police chief Frank Straub was thrown out Tuesday by a visiting judge from Yakima County.<\/p>\n<p>Superior Court Judge Blaine Gibson issued the ruling after Condon, a Republican, repeatedly said that the recall effort was a politically motivated effort by Democrats to oust him from power.<\/p>\n<p>The recall petition was filed earlier this year by Spokane accountant David Green, who claimed Condon delayed the release of public records regarding Straub\u2019s firing until after his re-election last November.<\/p>\n<p>The petition also claimed Condon violated city policies in his handling of sexual harassment claims made by former police spokeswoman Monique Cotton against Straub.<\/p>\n<p>Green said he does not plan to appeal the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Straub filed a lawsuit against the city in February seeking $4 million for alleged due process rights. It was dismissed by a by a federal judge in June, but Straub has appealed.<\/p>\n<p>Condon was the first Spokane mayor to win a second term since David Rogers did so in 1978<\/p>\n<p>The only Spokane mayor ever recalled was Jim West in 2005, over a sex scandal for which he was never charged. West died in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Spokane Democrats had asked Condon to step down after the chief was fired.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton was transferred to a job in the city\u2019s Parks Department. That prompted former parks spokeswoman Nancy Goodspeed to file a $1 million lawsuit claiming she was discriminated against and illegally replaced by Cotton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPOKANE, Wash. \u2014 An effort to recall Spokane Mayor David Condon because of his firing of former police chief Frank Straub was thrown out Tuesday by a visiting judge from Yakima County. Superior Court Judge Blaine Gibson issued the ruling after Condon, a Republican, repeatedly said that the recall effort was a politically motivated effort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-28760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nation-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28760"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}