Organizers of the recall effort against Mayor LaToya Cantrell have another five weeks to gain the signatures they need to put the recall on the ballot.
According to one of the campaign's leader, more people have been signing as the deadline nears.
"We have turned a corner," recall effort vice chair Eileen Carter told WWL's Newell Normand. "I'm not giving an exact number, but we're definitely turning a corner in the mid-30(,000)s to upper-30s. So we're really excited about that
Carter says the campaign is mailing out more petitions today. She also says her group will resume canvassing neighborhoods across the city.
That, she says, could help the recall effort reach its goal of nearly 54,000 signatures.
"We really feel like we can get over the finish line with the next mailers and a canvassing effort because our canvassing has already started as well," Carter said.
Carter also expects to get more signatures from people who forgot to mail in their petitions.
"I was talking to a gentleman there who came to sign, and he was saying, 'It's crazy because I have this signed and sitting on my living room table. I just did not mail it and put it in. I'm 100 percent behind the effort. I just didn't do that last step,'" Carter said.
Carter and her fellow campaign leaders will also turn to voters who are still on the fence for their support. She says undecided voters should sign the petition because doing so would give them more time to decide to keep or recall Mayor Cantrell in the months leading up to the election.
"It's not getting rid of her. It's giving us a vote to decide if we want to keep her," Carter said. "That's what this recall does. It gives us an option, and we need a choice for new leadership. We cannot wait until 2026."
