AI center vote fuels recall effort

Ever since Lori Laske made the motion to approve and Vern Heersink provided a second to a vote that opened the door to a small AI data center in Alamosa County, there has been a growing buzz of disenchantment among Alamosans that has manifested itself in a recall effort against the two elected county commissioners.

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Petitioners have until Dec.

8 to satisfy the first step in the recall process – submitting enough valid signatures of registered voters to the Alamosa County Clerk and Recorder’s office to make a recall election possible.

Both county commissioners were last elected in 2024.

The signatures collected for recall have to amount to 25 percent of the total votes tallied in their respective contests.

For Laske that would be 1,876 valid signatures; for Heersink that would be 1,311.

Petitioners say they are shooting for 2,000 signatures on each. “We are on a timeline for it.

It seems like it’’s picking up fairly well,” says Sam Brookes, one of the recall petitioners.