Troy Mayor Recall Group Has 97 Percent of Required Signatures

During , Recall Janice Daniels founder Matt Binkowski stood up during public comment to provide an update on the group's effort to recall embattled Troy Mayor Janice Daniels.

“We have now received more signatures than voted for you in November," Binkowski said during the meeting.

In an email to Patch Monday evening, Binkowski confirmed the group has collected 7,760 – or 97 percent – of the 7,985 signatures needed to trigger a recall election in November.

The group has until June 15 to collect the remaining 225 signatures.

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Daniels first came under fire in December for her  and has remained the center of controversy after  (a  was later approved), telling the  Gay-Straight Alliance she would bring in an expert to tell them  and writing a lengthy position paper some viewed as .

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