The Recall of Mayor Perez

The failed recall of Mayor Perez came to light in 2006. A group of people calling themselves Citizens for Responsible Government started the recall efforts. The recall was a racial movement to eject a Latino mayor from office, as some saw it.

The recall reason stated that Mayor Perez was failing to uphold his duties as a mayor with professionalism and integrity. The reason for the recall was that Perez was successful in his efforts to move the location of the city's new police headquarters from a local park to a site on the city's west side and he stopped the merging of the city police department, 911 center and the sheriffs department into one at the Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department. People felt this was the Mayor shrugging his duties as Mayor and ruining the city.

Meetings were held at Dave’s Who’s Inn in Sheboygan. Some gathered to volunteer to help collect signatures needed to oust the Mayor of Sheboygan. The group needed 6,000 signatures to force a recall, but were only able to collect 4,013, none of which were ever verified because the group never hit the mark.