Suttle Makes It Official, He Won't Resign

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Suttle Makes It Official, He Won’t Resign

By Joe Jordan / December 17, 2010 / 10 Comments

Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle made it official today, he’s not resigning. He’s also claiming that those out to get him are guilty of what Suttle calls, “political maneuvering.”

Today was the last day the Mayor had to either resign or face a possible recall election. On Tuesday the Omaha City Council is expected to schedule that election for January 25th. On Monday, Suttle goes to court to try and convince a judge that the election should be stopped.

One month ago Suttle first told Nebraska Watchdog in an exclusive on camera interview that he wasn’t quitting. Today in his formal letter to Douglas County Election Commissioner Dave Phipps, Suttle states “I will not resign.” While defending his actions in office for the past 18 months Suttle also takes aim at the recall process. Suttle tells Phipps, “I’m sure you will understand my commitment to the 92% of Omaha residents who did not participate in the recall and are concerned about the methods used to collect signatures.”

The Mayor Suttle Recall Committee denies any widespread fraud in the petition gathering process. The legitimacy of those petitions will be at the forefront of next week’s legal fight.

Nebraska Watchdog will be in the courtroom following all the developments.

Reported by Joe Jordan, joe@nebraskawatchdog.org

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Joe Jordan

GeosUser

Congrats Aida on a very well-written but complete empty list of Mayor Moron’s so-called “accomplishments” in his “I’m not resigning” letter. You’re really going to have to earn your money when the judge clears the way for the recall vote next month on next Tuesday. Better save some of the writing skills for updating your resume, you’ll need it on January 26th or so…LOL!!!
Danielle

I needed a good laugh so I re-read the “my committment to the 92% of Omaha residents who did not participate…” line….Does he not realize that not even 92% of the population of Omaha is registered to vote? Let alone voted for him in the election?
OFD & Proud

i do wish that Nabity, Daub, and the rest of their Repubdummies would stop being sore loosers and just let OUR ELECTED MAYOR do his job. If you find it hard to live under this Mayor then do us all a favor and move out of the city. Most of you most likely pay little or no taxes anyway and sponge off city services
http://www.popomark@cox.net D. Mark

The other 8% voted to rid of him as Mayor and they are the ones that count.

The other 92% just do not care.
Joe

No the 92 per cent thought that the man is doing what we elected him to do, making hard choices and possibly not being popular with those that didn’t vote for him ! The 8 per cent were content with costing the city money it can ill afford to spend on a costly and unnecessary election.
Rich

If WE THE PEOPLE are “allowed” to go and vote by the good all knopwing judge he is done. If the judge stops it I guess the good judge will have get worried about his job in the next election. . How the hell did we even get this guy. Oh yeah…The obama band wagon voters. Don’t have to worry about them this time around. Mr. Suttle I hope that when you get thrown out you don’t make a real fool out of yourself. Leave with grace. Don’t be a Gore and go to court. You need to understand that when WE say goodbye to you we mean it. We could always show up with pitch forks though …..just saying
Bell-View

At least Nixon had the decency to resign; Mayor “Milhouse” Pothole will hold on till the last glimmer. He still doesn’t seem to grasp that the people have the right (and responsibility) to recall an elected official whose is heaping onerous taxes on the citizenry and is attempting to plunder the rest of the metro area. I’m only sorry that I’m not able to cast a vote.

It’s not credible to think that he knew nothing about what was going on while on the city council in regards to the financial picture–only finding out after Fahey left office. I remember reading somewhere that he hired a consultant at something like $2K/month while a councilmember (nearly the total salary of a councilmember). What reasonable person does that and is so much in the fog bank?

By the way, we never did hear, “mission accomplished” concerning the pothole repairs from the winter of 2009-1010. I suppose he will blame this year’s cold winter weather for the potholes that were left unrepaired from last year.
frank

suttle is FOS, mentally ill, and a monster. pour salt in his mouth and sew his lips shut, stuff garlic up his arse and put a silver bullet right in his edd!
http://google Omaha Thinker

ofd&proud: what is a “looser?” if we all moved out of the city we would be living with 80 percent of the tax using ofd.
James

OK guys…lay off Suttle for a change…he is human…maybe…If he runs for Mayor AGAIN…AFTER a RECALL..THEN we can lable him STUPID…not before!!?? Until then…we just call him Mayor Pothole!