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Claims fly during recall election A look at contentions around effort to remove District 3 member BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Englewood doesn’t spare any punches. That much has become clear in the lead-up to the Sept. 18 election to decide whether to remove Englewood
City Councilmember Laurett Barrentine from office, an effort initiated by four District 3 residents, including two former Englewood mayors. Since then, accusations have piled up on the pro-recall camp’s website and in events held by Barrentine in recent weeks to push back — in some cases turning the focus to the former mayors, Randy Penn, who served in the seat from 2011-15, and Jim Wood-
ward, who held the position from 2007-11. The election may be as much a test of Barrentine’s support in District 3 as it is a political showcase for a vocal group of residents who say they’re standing up for transparency in the city’s government. Voters in the district — roughly the southeast and middle parts of Englewood — began receiving mail ballots in late August. Here’s a look at some of the claims surrounding the recall.
‘Constant obstruction’ When Woodward announced the recall effort at the April 16 city council meeting, he criticized what he called the “dysfunction and division” of the council and “meetings being hijacked” by Barrentine with “tirades intended to delay the business of council.” Barrentine asks for “more information, more information — the same information again,” Woodward said Aug. 24. “That’s her M.O.” SEE ELECTION, P18
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The median sales price of a single-family home in Englewood in July was $415,000 — that’s 9.2 percent higher than a year earlier. Source: Denver Metro Association of Realtors
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