Recall effort against San Luis councilman defeated in court

BY CESAR NEYOY, BAJO EL SOL

May 3, 2007 - 9:47PM

A city councilman in San Luis, Ariz., has escaped an effort to oust him from office after a judge ruled Wednesday that some of the petitions to recall him were invalid.

Rafael Torres was one of three city councilmen who had been targeted along with Mayor Juan Carlos Escamilla for recall by the Committee for True Government. The recall petitions against Escamilla and Councilmen Archilbaldo Gurrola and Marco Antonio Reyes Jr. were previously determined to be insufficient.

Understand that this is a bordertown in the USA that is almost 90 Hispanic and half of those are foreign born. They have had a number of recall votes over the past several years. This town is run more like something out of the Mexican Revolution and Pancho Villa then it is an American democracy. It is and continues to be a joke and under investigation for its political hi-jinks! -mm