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Article: ROUND 1 TO MAYOR, AND RECALL BATTLE MAY BE A KNOCKOUT JUDGE RULES STREETER CRITICS LACK GROUNDS TO HOLD SPECIAL ELECTION TO REPLACE HIM
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 18, 2005
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Next month's special election to oust Nashua Mayor Bernie Streeter
is off at least for now.
Hillsborough County Superior Court Judge Gary Hicks last week
agreed with Streeter that holding a recall election would violate
state law. The state, he wrote in his opinion, authorizes
municipalities to remove a mayor from office only for cause, such as
prolonged absence, inattention to duties, crime, or misconduct in
office, and it can occur only after a notice and hearing by the Board
of Aldermen.
Hicks said the 14-year-old state law governing a mayor's removal
nullifies the recall provision in Nashua's charter, which was
approved by the Legislature in 1913. The city had argued that the
state law ...