Recall Of Temecula Valley USD Trustee Komrosky Certified By County

TEMECULA, CA — Temecula Valley Unified School District Trustee Dr. Joseph Komrosky has been officially recalled.

The final certified results for the June 4 Temecula Valley Unified School District, Trustee Area 4, Special Recall Election were posted Thursday night by the Riverside County Registrar of Voters.

Trustee Area 4 voters who cast ballots to recall Komrosky totaled 4,963, or 51.09%, while those who voted against amounted to 4,751, or 48.91%. Of the 21,578 ballots mailed to registered Trustee Area 4 voters, 9,722 were cast, or 45.06%.

The deadline to request a ballot recount is 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 25.

"THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. It's official," read a Thursday evening post from One Temecula Valley PAC, the grassroots organization that led efforts to oust Komrosky.

Komrosky has said he will likely run again in November for the Trustee Area 4 seat. County officials are researching whether that is possible.

Trustee Area 4 voters were asked a single yes-or-no ballot question during the June 4 election: "Shall JOSEPH WAYNE KOMROSKY be recalled (removed) from the office of Governing Board Member, Temecula Valley Unified School District, Trustee Area 4?"

TVUSD Trustee Jennifer Wiersma and former Trustee Danny Gonzalez were initially targeted by One Temecula Valley PAC, too, though those recall efforts were dropped. Gonzalez resigned his post in December. His Trustee Area 2 seat remains vacant. Wiersma remains on the board.

Efforts to recall the trio started not long after they took office. The three were each elected in November 2022 to a four-year term on the TVUSD board following support from Inland Empire Family PAC, which works to "stop the indoctrination of our children by placing candidates on school boards who will fight for Christian and conservative values."

Komrosky was immediately appointed board president by his colleagues, though Trustees Allison Barclay and Steven Schwartz were opposed.

Critics, including national organizations, blasted Komrosky, Gonzalez and Wiersma over their critical race theory ban; their controversial critical race theory "panel" that many TVUSD teachers dubbed "indoctrination camp"; their censoring of instruction about California's gay rights movement; their attempted defiance of state education code; their firing of the district superintendent; the hiring of their own team of attorneys at taxpayers' expense to defend against ongoing lawsuits over their actions; their ban on pride and other flags; and their mandate that educators report to parents about transgender students.

Their actions cost the district in legal fees and caught the ire of state leaders.