CityLab Daily: Inside Shasta County's Recall Election
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Leonard Moty, a Republican county supervisor in Shasta, California, was targeted by a far-right recall campaign bankrolled by an out-of-state donor.
Photographer: Max Whittaker/BloombergIn the third episode of “Bedrock, USA,” our podcast exploring the rise of far-right movements in local governments, Laura Bliss goes deeper into a recall campaign in Shasta County, California, and the donor behind it: Reverge Anselmo.
Hit with the realities of what’s needed to put a recall on the ballot, campaign leaders were only able to move forward with recalling one of the three supervisors they targeted. With hundreds of thousands of dollars donated by Anselmo, recall activists aggressively ran ads — often with misleading messages — aimed at replacing Leonard Moty with their own candidate. To Moty, the effort evoked tactics used by Nazis to put Adolf Hitler in power: “His group bullied, intimidated, threatened the people into silence.” Today on CityLab: Listen to the new episode and read the accompanying story: Getting a Recall on the Ballot