WARREN On April 21, the Michigan Court of Appeals overturned a lower-court ruling and ordered Warren City Clerk Sonja Buffa to remove Mayor James Fouts from the 2023 election ballot.
Warren councilman named in recall efforts
Eddie Kabacinski
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WARREN A local business alliance is backing one effort to recall Warren City Councilman Eddie Kabacinski, one of five members of the council who voted against a proposed settlement that could have ended a costly lawsuit over medical marijuana dispensary licensing.
“Even before his vote on this matter, I was inclined to run a recall on him anyhow,” said John Johnson, CEO of the Southeast Michigan Chamber of Commerce and the chairman of the recall committee.
Johnson said Kabacinski, elected in November 2019 to represent Warren’s City Council District 5, “had a lot of baggage” even before the vote on the settlement. He said Kabacinski was in the “weakest” position of the five council members who voted in late November to deny a proposed settlement and consent judgment in the Pinebrook Warren LLC et al vs. City of Warren et al case, brought by a host of hopeful marijuana dispensary operators.