By Marty Mayfield<\/p>\n
KRTN Multi-Media<\/p>\n
Two citizens groups filed a petition for justification to proceed with a recall election of two Raton School board members back in May 2015. The hearing for that petition was held Wed., July 1st<\/sup> in 8th Judicial\u00a0District Court in Raton.<\/p>\n A group of teachers called Citizens of Raton and another group called Concerned Citizens filed petitions with the county clerk to determine sufficiency of facts to proceed with a recall election of Raton School board members Ted Kamp and Kathy Honeyfield. County Clerk Freda Baca then filed the petitions in District Court through the county attorney Robin Blair.\u00a0<\/p>\n Court documents showed three charges against both Honeyfield and Kamp.\u00a0 (see the complete petition) \u00a0In Judge Paternoster\u2019s remarks he indicated that there must be a clear violation of malfeasance in the office or misfeasance in the office of violation of oath of office in order to proceed with a recall election. He found that going over the evidence submitted that the accusations did not meet the definition of either malfeasance or misfeasance in office. (Link to the full Document\u00a0Recall Petition for Kathy Honeyfield and Ted Kamp<\/a>)<\/p>\n He therefore instructed Attorney Robin Blair, the attorney for the county, to instruct his client that there was no justification to move forward with a recall election and dismissed the case.<\/p>\n (Listen to the Judge’s reasons for his decision)