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A much-hyped effort to recall Houston Mayor John Whitmire from office — the subject of multiple news stories and social media posts over the past year — fell significantly short of its goal as the 30-day window closed this week.

According to organizer Ethan Hale, canvassers collecting signatures returned "just over 2,000 or so — something like that."

In order to place the recall question before voters, the campaign needed to collect more than 63,000 signatures in 30 days.

The campaign raised less than $5,000 of a $100,000 goal and relied heavily on volunteers.

"I think we knew the odds were not exactly in our favor, and I think we were more so hoping more of our volunteers would turn out, but didn’t really happen that way," Hale told Houston Pu

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