LINCOLN- A group upset with Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird and members of the Lincoln City Council over the mask mandate, directed health measures and the appointment of the local health director will seek their recalls.

Lancaster County Election Commissioner Dave Shively on Monday said recall affidavits have been filed for Gaylor Baird, and council members James Michael Bowers (District 1), Richard Meginnis (District 2), Jane Raybould (District 3) and Tammy Ward (District 4).

Samuel Lyon, a real estate agent who is the principal circulator for the Gaylor Baird recall, said the mayor has sowed discord and turned neighbors against one another and pitted proprietors against their patrons when she implemented Nebraska's first mask mandate. He decried her pandemic actions, including the mask mandate and emergency declaration for the pandemic, as an "assault on the citizens and good life of Lincoln."

Once the petitions are issued, petitioners need to collect 21,652 signatures of eligible Lincoln voters within 30 days to trigger a recall election.

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