Recall Effort Fails

Ron Buchart told the Observer that the effort he publicly led to recall Kimball Mayor John Morrison, which began on Oct. 22 and ended on Dec. 12, ended up 70 signatures short of the necessary 280 to force a recall election.

Dec 12 was the statutory deadline for signatures to be turned in to the Kimball County Courthouse. Buchart requested the petition that set the recall effort in motion.

“We gave it everything we could,” Buchart said. “All of my spare time went into it.”

The petitions will be shredded as required by law, he said.

The mayor addresses the recall effort in his opinion column on...