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FULLERTON A petition to recall the Nance County attorney failed to gather enough signatures to reach the ballot.
The petition to oust Rodney Wetovick wasn't turned in by Wednesday's 30-day deadline, Nance County Clerk Danette Zarek said Thursday.
Jeff Cuba of Genoa, its primary circulator, said he hadn't counted the signatures on the petition but knew they were short of the 592 required to bring it to the ballot.
The petition was filed March 3, four months after Wetovick sued the Nance County Board of Supervisors over the funding for his office.
Wetovick contends in the suit that the board was unreasonable in rejecting his budget request for a full-time secretary last September.
On the petition, Cuba cited several reasons for Wetovick's recall, including his "inability to productively interact with the County Board of Supervisors, especially on budget issues."
Wetovick said Thursday that many people he has talked to have gotten much of their information about the issue from letters to the editor of the local newspaper. Much of the information that he has heard has been false, he said.
"If there are people that distrust me at this point, I feel it's due to misinformation," he said.
When Wetovick became the county attorney in January 2007, the board allowed him to hire a full-time secretary to help fulfill his office's contract with the state Department of Health and Human Services to enforce child support. But the board balked when Wetovick requested the position in his 2007-08 budget, which it considered in September.
The board offered to allow Wetovick to hire two part-time secretaries to avoid paying for a benefits package, but he refused. Wetovick has said he did so because he believed the arrangement would lead to high turnover and the need to train more people on the state's complex child support system.
Nance County District Judge Michael Owens last week overruled a motion by the board to have the suit dismissed, and a hearing in the case is set for April 30.
Cuba said he planned to end his involvement in the issue.
"I'm going to go back to my corner and let them do what they need to do," he said. "Hopefully, they can get it worked out."
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