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A notice of intent to recall Nye County District 4 Commissioner Butch Borasky and town board members Nicole Shupp and Bill Dolan was filed with the county clerk's office Friday.

The notice was signed by Larky White, Geneil White and Jack Jordan. Larky White ran unsuccessfully for the Pahrump Town Board last year, finishing sixth in the August primary with 781 votes.

The filing gives recall supporters 90 days to produce petitions with 652 valid signatures, 25 percent of the people in District 4 who voted in the 2006 election. That deadline falls on Sept. 2, according to the county clerk's office.

An effort to recall Borasky had been threatened for some months now, since the signing of a development agreement between Nye County and Corrections Corporation of America to build a federal detention center Dec. 16.

"Under the NRS (Nevada Revised Statutes) law people have the right to try to do a recall. I would not try to interfere in any way and respect their right to do so. I have all the confidence in the world that the voters who elected me to office to represent them will continue to support me in the future," Borasky said.

"It is sad that people who can't get elected themselves will resort to a back door approach to recall someone who is already doing a good job, to force another election with a cost to the taxpayers of approximately $30,000," he said.

Borasky confirmed he will be a candidate for re-election in District 4 in the November 2010 election. He accused Harley Kulkin of being behind the recall.

A companion petition is being circulated to nominate Donna Cox as the replacement candidate, if Borasky's opponents collect enough valid signatures to call for a recall election and he is voted out of office. Cox is the president of Concerned Citizens for a Safe Community, the group fighting the proposed federal detention center and the plaintiff on a suit seeking to stop it.

So why is Borasky being singled out? The county commission unanimously passed the development agreement with CCA.

"Because from what we could find out, he was the main person behind pushing for the prison. His name is on all the documents for the county that have anything to do with the prison and he's the only one now that's eligible to be recalled," Cox said.

Cox predicted that as soon as Nye County District 3 Commissioner Gary Hollis and Nye County District 2 Commissioner Joni Eastley are six months into their current terms, recall petitions will be circulated against them.

Cox said Commissioner Fely Quitevis and Lorinda Wichman weren't in office at the time the county approved agreements with the federal detention center, commonly referred to as a prison. Quitevis is also an opponent of the project, she said.

Cox was optimistic the recall will pass.

"People are really upset over the prison. I think it's the biggest issue we've ever had," Cox said.

The last successful recall was against Robert "Red" Dyer, the former public administrator, who was recalled by a 3,707-74 vote during a special election on Jan. 18, 2000.

The last recall attempt was against former District 5 Commissioner Peter Liakopoulos. The Nye County clerk's office was told to review 500 of the 772 signatures submitted in January 2008. The Nevada Secretary of State determined only 341 of those 500 signatures were valid, leaving recall proponents short of the 670 recall signatures. But Liakopoulos resigned anyway effective Dec. 31, 2008.

Borasky charged Cox didn't live in District 4. Cox lists an address of 2441 Hacienda St., right next door to a fenced-off home abandoned due to a collapsing foundation. Borasky called that address a front for her candidacy.

"That's my new address. I was staying at my son's house previously," Cox said.

The county clerk's office also received registration forms for a recall committee named Recalls R Us, with an address of 50 Emery St., a postal mailing service. Cox said that is a subcommittee of the Concerned Citizens for a Safe Community.

The reason the committee was organized is "to recall public servants who are not serving the people."

Officers include Chairman Ralph "Butch" Clendenen, Vice Chairman Rosemary Garity, Treasurer Larry Sanford and Secretary Kim Clendenen.

Butch Clendenen lists an address of 2280 N. Kittyhawk Drive, near the proposed site of the federal detention center on 2250 E. Mesquite Ave. He has been a vocal opponent of the project.

During the Dec. 16 public hearing on the development agreement, Clendenen said he bought his property a year and two months before and wouldn't have done so if he knew a federal detention center would be built nearby.

Clendenen charged county commissioners did the minimum amount of notification of the project to the public. He also claimed it was spot zoning.