ST. LOUIS St. Louis Alderman Thomas E. Bauer became the latest victim in a surge of recall elections in the city Tuesday.
Voters ousted the veteran Democrat, known for campaigning on the back of a donkey, in a special election, with 60 percent supporting the recall. He has five days to resign as alderman of the 24th Ward or he will automatically be removed from office.
"It was an electoral defeat, that's what I think," Bauer said. "I think it's the natural result of a concerted, long-term campaign in the media of negative lies."
Bauer is the third aldermen in two years to be removed via recall. Earlier this year, Peggy Ryan was stripped of her seat in the 4th Ward. In 2003, Melinda Long lost her seat in the 21st Ward. Before then, only one alderman, the 27th Ward's Jimmie Matthews in 1988, had been recalled since the city adopted its current charter in 1914
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