Talk:James W. Holley III

Image
Could someone with a better understanding of the policy regarding image uploading find one for the page? I am completely helpless when it comes to all of this fair use/free/copyright nonsense. There are plenty of pics available online, put I don't know which are copyrighted, or even how to go about finding out. If worse comes to worse, I could go down to City Hall and take one myself, but I'd rather not have to do that. ;) Thanks! faithless   (speak)  01:08, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * There are generally several options for a usable picture: public domain (or free licensed picture), fair use, or a picture you take yourself. I took a quick look at some of the places we normally find public domain or free licensed pictures and didn't see any - not surprising for a local political figure.  The ones online are copyrighted, and fair use isn't usually appropriate for a living person.  So, the probable options are (1) contact him (or his office) - or someone you know that has a picture of him - to see if they will release a picture to the public domain (or under one of the Wikipedia friendly licenses); or (2) take the picture yourself.  Yes, the Wikipedia images policy is a bit complex.  Let me know if you need a better explanation.-- Kubigula (talk) 03:52, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

More info on second recall
(From Ballotpedia.org, available per GNU 1.2 free license) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 19:03, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

A vote about whether to recall James Holley from his position as Mayor of Portsmouth, Virginia took place on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. Holley was recalled by the city's voters. The vote on July 13 to recall Holley is the second time Holley has been recalled by the voters in Portsmouth. He is believed to be the first politician in the United States to be recalled twice. , ,


 * Votes to recall Holley: 10,721 (68%) ✅
 * Votes to keep Holley: 5,154 (32%)

The July 13, 2010 recall vote was scheduled after over 9,000 signatures on recall petitions were submitted to election officials in early May 2010. Holley has two years remaining of his current term as the city's mayor.

The recall campaign was motivated by the allegation that Mayor Holley used a city assistant for personal tasks. Local resident Dolores Knight, who began the recall effort, said,"It’s been a lot of people calling me. I just knew something needed to be done."

On Tuesday, August 12, 2009, six City Council members called for Holley to retire. Holley, however, responded by saying, "I'm a statesman. I'll be here when the place goes down - I'm going down with it. When it goes up, I'm going up with it. All of that is predicated upon whether you want to keep me or not."

Background
The recall campaign began after the Virginian-Pilot reported that the council fined Holley $2,500 for allegedly mistreating assistants and asking them to perform personal tasks for him. In one instance, the mayor's personal assistant Lorraine Stokes said that the mayor had a asked her to perform approximately 44 personal tasks - listed here. To the accusations Holley said it was "probably a bad, bad decision that I made. I've been forgiven before, so I look forward to your forgiveness again."

In 1987, Holley became the first mayor in Virginia to be recalled. He is currently serving his fifth term as mayor.

Joe Wright, a civic leader who actively opposed the 1987 recall said that he would help Holley again in the 2010 effort, if asked. Wright also said, "I'm not going to say he's by himself, but the people are not as fired up about it, because most of the people really think it's time for him to step down."

Path to the ballot

 * September 9, 2009: Organizers announce they've collected 500 signatures.
 * November 2009: Recall supporters say they have more than 2,415 signatures.
 * December 22, 2009: The group circulating the petitions had gathered 6,630 signatures, 38 signatures short of the required 6,668 needed to force a recall election.
 * On February 12, the recall campaign announced that it had more than 8,200 signatures in hand.
 * In early May, the recall group submitted over 9,000 signatures to election officials to force a recall vote.
 * On May 10, Holley filed a formal challenge of the signatures. He questioned whether the signatures on the petitions were genuine, and whether those who signed the petition were qualified to sign it.
 * On May 27, a sufficiency hearing took place to determine whether enough valid signatures were submitted to force a recall election. The judge found that sufficient signatures had been submitted and ordered Holley to resign or face a recall election.
 * June 4: The deadline by which Holley had to resign or face a recall election.  Holley did not resign, thus setting up a recall election.
 * July 13: Date that recall election will take place.

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