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Springfield residents move to recall entire city council amid Haitian invasion

September 12, 2024 | | Print Article

The beleaguered residents of Springfield, Ohio have launched a petition to recall the entire city commission over their poor handling of the Haitian migrant crisis.

Citing Section 59 of the city’s charter, the petition calls for “the entire membership” of the Springfield City Commission, including Mayor Rob Rue, to step down over their dereliction of duty.

The petition says the members of the commission “breached their public responsibilities” by pursuing policies that have made the city’s long-standing issues even worse, especially amid the Haitian migrant crisis.

“The Commission has created an untenable housing crisis by purposefully abandoning prior practices for consistent code enforcement,” the petition reads. “The Commission has permitted unscrupulous landlords to proliferate unsafe tenements which have caused their occupants to live in substandard conditions, have created substantial occupational hazards for public safety officers who are dispatched to such tenements, and caused long-term residents to be squeezed out of the local housing market.”

Speaking with TheBlaze, one local resident sought to better explain this particular part of the petition.

“What they’ll do instead of having a single family in a home that’s maybe a three-bedroom, they’ll actually rent bedrooms out to individual families,” the resident said. “So the landlord will technically triple his rent [income].”

According to journalist Julio Rosas, these “individual families” tend to be Haitians. What’s happening, he explained in the tweet below, is that landlords are refusing to renew leases for American families who want the whole home to themselves and instead renting out individual rooms to groups of Haitians.

The petition also accuses the commission of failing to maintain a large enough police force.

“The Commission has failed to maintain an adequate Police Department,” the petition reads. “Several years ago, the City voters imposed on themselves a special real estate tax levy to employ an additional 24 Police Officers.”

“Instead of employing the additional 24 Police Officers, the Commissioners have spent the restricted funds for purposes other than the intended Police Officer compensation. The Commissioners have caused the City’s Police Department to be understaffed; thereby impairing the ability of the Police to promptly respond to resident calls and to regularly enforce traffic and other laws, thus undermining the order of, and peace within, the City,” the petition continues.

The petition is reportedly still in the early stages of development.

“A committee to oversee the petition process is still being assembled,” Rosas notes. “Once that is completed, the committee will officially notify the city commissioners, who are then given five days to file a 200-word written statement in their defense. After that, the gathering of signers of the petition will be allowed to proceed.”

A recall election will eventually occur if at least 15 percent of registered voters from the last regular municipal election sign the petition within a 30-day period.

All this comes amid an influx of Haitian migrants who’ve brought with them an abundance of problems.

While the corporate propaganda press has sought to deny what’s happening in Springfield, Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine proved otherwise this week by announcing plans to deploy law enforcement and millions of dollars in aid to the city.

Meanwhile, earlier in the week Republican Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost directed his office to research legal means — including a potential lawsuit — to stop the Biden-Harris administration from sending “an unlimited number of migrants to Ohio communities.”

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