The Abridged version:
- An issue with paperwork filed to try recalling Twin Rivers Unified trustee Sascha Vogt has failed.
- Leaders of the school district’s teachers union sought to remove Vogt from office due to frustrations that date back to the district’s teacher strike earlier this year.
- Sacramento County election officials said the recall notice lacked signatures for each of the listed proponents.
An effort by the Twin Rivers Unified teachers union to recall Trustee Sascha Vogt will not move forward after Sacramento County election officials determined the official paperwork did not fulfill necessary requirements.
Leaders of Twin Rivers United Educators sought to remove Vogt from office due to what they described as frustration with her role leading up to a historic 12-day teacher strike this spring.
“Our members believed in her,” Brittoni Ward, union president, told Abridged by PBS KVIE in August. “Up until this moment.”
But the attempt, the second the union has made against Vogt, came up short.
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The county elections division said in a letter Thursday that the notice to recall failed to include each proponent’s signature and therefore would not suffice.
Vogt had raised concerns about the effort when it started last month, saying her lawyer was looking into whether each person who listed their name on the filing was properly informed about what they were endorsing.
“I appreciate Sacramento County Elections providing clarity on the status of the recall effort,” Vogt said in a statement Friday. “I look forward to continuing to focus my energy on our students, families, staff, and communities. There is important work ahead in Twin Rivers, and I remain committed to showing up, listening, and doing that work.”
The letter from election officials said that the recall process could be restarted at any time.
“Right now, we are fighting through a bureaucracy that seems more interested in the process than in people,” Ward said in a statement Friday. “During the strike, we refused to stop fighting when district bureaucrats shortchanged our students by diverting millions of dollars from classrooms, and we won’t stop fighting to have a school board that is as committed to our students, our schools, and our community as we are.”
