Red Dirt Report
MIDWEST CITY, Okla. — Public safety employees in Midwest City are leading the effort to recall Mayor Dee Collins for his apparent failure to support the police and fire departments.
The recall petition drive will start next week, according to Doug Beabout, president of the Midwest City firefighters union. The petition drive will require 433 signatures to force Collins into a recall election. “We’re just one trip away to the printer’s from having the forms ready to circulate,” Beabout said Tuesday in a telephone interview with Red Dirt Report. Collins, who spent 30 years on the Midwest City police department, did not return a phone call for comment.
“He doesn’t stand up for public safety like you might expect,” Beabout said. “That (time on the police department) doesn’t translate into being a good mayor. Under Mr. Collins’ leadership, the council is rubber stamping whatever (city manager) Guy Henson wants or doesn’t want. The mayor is the leader of the council and he has an office that is 15 steps from the city manager, but nothing gets done. We need to re-establish leadership on the council.”
Full story: MWC fire, police unions seek recall of Mayor Collins; want city manager fired