Recall effort over masks fails to remove Missouri mayor
Voters elected not to remove a Missouri mayor who was the subject of a recall effort after imposing a mask mandate on his community.
Only about 25 percent of people voted on Tuesday to recall Nixa Mayor Brian Steele ,who will now remain in office until the end of his term in April 2023, according to The Associated Press.
Steele, who has been mayor since 2014, issued an executive order in 2020 to require masks in Nixa, a town with a population of about 21,000 people near Springfield, the AP reported.
"Based on the facts we knew at that time, I don't think I would have done anything different than I would now," Steele said, according to the AP. "I had the support of my entire city council. Almost all of them were out there today at the polls helping me out. That shows that we made the decision that needed to be made at that time."
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