Squabbling in a county assessor’s office has gone nuclear in southern Oregon, where the recalled assessor claims the Coos County Board of Commissioners released a scorching letter criticizing his “dictatorial” and “hostile” management style to retaliate for his release of “thousands of sexually explicit, racist and offens[iv]e emails” that came from the assessor’s office while his predecessor
Read MoreA four member committee voted three to one to accept Steve Jansen as the new assessor to replace Adam Colby, recalled in December.
Read MoreNikki Whitty attended today’s commission meeting via telephone. Several people objected and the legality of remote attendance was questioned. Whitty, who recently underwent major surgery is recuperating
Read MoreUnofficial results at 8PM 8,251 votes to recall the Coos County Assessor, Adam Colby compared to 5,528 to retain him.
Read MoreJust checked and the ballots are coming in about 20% slower than the Stufflebean recall. At this point in the Stufflebean recall almost 33% of the ballots
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A break in the weather allowed a quick walk through Coquille today and plastered in the window of American City Cabinets & Woodworking was this sign insulting 90% of the Monday through Friday traffic likely to see it. Calling county employees and union members ‘inferior’ and liars is not just impolitic it is plain stupid.
From Adam Colby to Terri Turi, Coos County Clerk Statement of Justification It is my privilege to serve as assessor, and I am elated to have successfully transformed the office into a shining example of customer focused public...
Read MoreAn election worker, a volunteer I think, exiting the courthouse this afternoon advised she had overhead enough signatures had been verified to force a special election to recall Adam Colby. Colby has five days I think to resign...
Read MoreSource advised me the Colby recall group turned petitions into the clerks office today. Because of the workload associated with ballots going out for the general election, the petitions will not be turned in to the elections...
Read MoreLast evening I attended, albeit briefly, a meeting to organize a recall effort against Adam Colby. Admitting up front I know hardly anything about his matter beyond what has been written in The World ( a source I do not consider...
Read MoreIn what appears to be the third editorial calling for the recall of Adam Colby, The World sloppily defends a decision not to support an earlier recall effort against Kevin Stufflebean by misstating facts. But a key difference...
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