Recall hearing set for December 2

A hearing to determine if a recall election for five elected officials in Whitehall would move forward has been rescheduled for Friday, December 2 at 9 a.m.

The hearing is to address the challenging of recall petitions for Mayor Dale Davis and Council Members Joe Adams, Gerry Keogh, Gary Housman and Tom Jenkin.

The hearing originally scheduled for October 20 in the Fifth-Judicial Court in Boulder was changed after Judge Katherine Bidegaray ordered the hearing to be vacated. Jefferson County Election Administrator Bonnie Ramey had asked for the hearing to be changed because the death of Mike Fellows, the Libertarian candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, caused significant disruption to the election process. The law firm of Guza, Nebitt, and Putzier had challenged the recall petitions submitted by Whitehall resident Lynn Nemeth, arguing they were invalid as to form and legally insufficient.