DPS board member Merida’s recall a no-go

Westword reports that an attempt to recall controversial DPS board member Andrea Merida appears to have failed.

The three people who asked for the recall had until Monday to submit a petition complete with the signatures of 4,342 voters in Merida's district. According to Nancy Reubert of the Denver Clerk and Recorder's Office, they did not do so.

The attempt to recall Merida began in early September, when the voters submitted an initial petition to the Denver Elections Division asking that Merida be recalled on the grounds of "unethical conduct" and "unbecoming behavior."

The effort was prompted partly by Merida's failure to disclose she was a paid staffer for former U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff when she wrote an op-ed for the Denver Post in July that criticized comments made by Romanoff's opponent, Senator Michael Bennet.