St. Tammany Parish coroner recall organizers utilize mailers to gain signatures [Video]

ST. TAMMANY(WGNO) — Organizers of the St. Tammany Parish coroner recall effort are utilizing a new strategy to reach the 37,000 signature goal to remove Dr. Christopher Tape from office.

Beginning about two weeks ago, mailers started going out to top voters in the parish asking them for their signatures.

“When the events started slowing down, when the heat started rising, we had to pivot and turn because we weren’t getting the 250 we needed a day so we started falling behind so we decided to raise some money and start sending out some flyers,” Recall organizer Jean Cefalu said.

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The organizer’s goal is to ship mailers out to about 35,000 different households.As of now, they only have a few thousand left to send out.

“In these, are the actual letters where we are asking the appeal for people to sign the petition. There will be a petition in there with …