Right after a recall election was called against Nye County District 4 Commissioner Butch Borasky, a notice of intent was filed Friday to recall District 3 Commissioner Gary Hollis.

The notice of intent to recall Hollis was filed just before 5 p.m. Friday, by Harriet Stowe, Robin Lloyd and Anthony Lloyd. They will have 90 days to collect 903 signatures, 25 percent of the registered voters in District 3 in the last election. The petitions are due by Dec. 17.

Merlino said a lot more people were registered to vote in 2008, a presidential election year, when Hollis was reelected to a second term, hence more signatures will be needed. Borasky was elected to his first term in 2006, an off-presidential year.

The recall campaign against Borasky and Pahrump Town Board members Nicole Shupp and Bill Dolan began June 5. Petitions against Shupp and Dolan lacked enough signatures.

Borasky's petitions were determined to have more than the 652 valid signatures needed by the Nevada Secretary of State's Office.

A recall election for Borasky has been called for Oct. 21 although Nye County Clerk Sam Merlino said a challenge was filed Sept. 21, presumably by Borasky.

Borasky's term ends in January 2011, Hollis' in January 2013.

"My main reason for being involved is basically the prison/detention center. That's why I supported the recall for Butch Borasky, that's why I'm supporting the recall against Gary Hollis," Robin Lloyd said, a co-signer of the notice of intent to recall. "They didn't give the people a say in anything about it. We're giving the people a say into whether the commissioners get to keep their jobs."

Lloyd said she began getting out the word about the detention center project on her television show on Channel 62 in July 2008, after she noticed a lot of local residents were unaware of it.

Harley Kulkin, who ran unsuccessfully against Hollis in the Nov. 4, 2008, election, confirmed he will run against Hollis if a recall election is called.

Kulkin won a court ruling by 8th District Judge Joe Bonaventure in July 2008 that he was a legal resident of District 3, after moving a 40-foot motor home into a space at the Tough Boy RV Park from his property at 8825 N. Linda St., in District 1.

But Hollis defeated Kulkin 1,876 votes to 1,559, a margin of 54.6 percent to 45.4 percent, in the general election last November.

Kulkin will have a booth at the Pahrump Fall Festival where recall petitions of Hollis will be available as well as petitions nominating Kulkin, Lloyd said. Petition organizers plan to go door to door as well.

Lloyd doesn't think people will be having recall fatigue.

"People are getting ramped up because it's their district next," she said, threatening District 2 commissioner Joni Eastley.

Hollis, a second-term county commissioner, took the news in stride.

"They have every right to recall anybody they want to for any reason. I don't know what I can say. I'm not going to take it away from them," Hollis said.

Asked if he was concerned, Hollis said, "You're always concerned. I'm going to campaign and keep them from getting their signatures. That's my right."

Hollis said he's proud to have been the county commission liaison to Yucca Mountain for the last five years, where he fought to get money for the payment equal to taxes and the nuclear waste oversight program.

Commissioners in August approved a $1.4 million contract with Pac-Van Inc. to assemble a modular building on the Calvada Eye to serve as the new county administration building and a meeting room that will replace the Bob Ruud Community Center.

"That was my original idea. I worked real hard for four years to get it where it is now. This is something the people own, 38 acres that they paid $3.2 million for. My thinking is it is really insane to have a piece of property there deteriorating, and it's one of the prettiest places in Pahrump," Hollis said.

But Hollis said he was threatened with a recall by members of the Concerned Citizens for a Safe Community after his vote in favor of the federal detention center project.

"It's going to cost, what, $30,000 for each one of these elections? If taxpayers think that's the way to go, they can recall me. I do the best I can do. I can't please everybody," Hollis said.

Kulkin said he would like to prevent Hollis from getting state retirement by getting him voted out of office by the end of the year. But Kulkin added that Hollis and his supporters will pull "every dirty trick" to throw out the recall signatures.

During a meeting last January, Concerned Citizens for a Safe Community talked about recalling a host of county officials including Nye County District Attorney Bob Beckett, Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo, Nye County Assessor Sandy Musselman and Merlino.

"We've got one success and there's going to be another success. Gary's going to be out," Kulkin said confidently.

"First of all, I don't believe he won the election. I think he stole it from the people myself. This time we'll have an honest election. Sam Merlino refused to let me look at the paper ballots."

But he added, "I'm not implying she has anything to do with it."

Hollis said he spent election night at the Pahrump Nugget Casino with his supporters and never went down to the clerk's office.

"I don't know how an election official can steal an election like this," Hollis said.

Kulkin said many candidate nights were scheduled too late last year, after the early voting.

It's the second time in less than three years Hollis has been subject to a recall.

On Oct. 23, 2006, Jim Petell, Tony Siragusa and Stephanie Farmer filed a motion of intent to recall Hollis after his vote in favor of a development agreement with Focus Property Group. That recall attempt failed.