Group signals recall attempt against S.F. Mayor Lee

In listing reasons Lee should be recalled, the San Francisco group cited recent Police Department scandals, tax breaks for corporations, the worsening homeless crisis and the city’s hosting of “frivolous revelries” such as the America’s Cup and Super Bowl.

Organizers of the recall effort include Francisco Herrera, a candidate for supervisor in District 11 and a 2015 candidate for mayor.

There’s not enough time for the group to make the November ballot, so any recall would go before voters in a special election.

“There’s always an impulse to start,” he said, but they never seem to make it through.

Since 2002 there have been three or four, and nothing has made the ballot.

Arntz said the last special election in the city was in April 2008, to elect a replacement for Rep. Tom Lantos, who died in office.