HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—A campaign that sought to recall Huntington Beach’s Mayor Pro Tem and two other councilors failed to meet the minimum number of signatures following a verification check from the Orange County Registrar of Voters on April 6. The recall group, named ‘Save Surf City’ turned in the signatures Feb. 23 to recall Mayor Pro Tem Mike Posey, Councilman Dan Kalmick, and Councilwoman Kim Carr. Each candidate needed approximately 13,000 verified signatures at the minimum to be recalled, representing 10 percent of current Huntington Beach voters. The group filed around 14,000 for each recall candidate. While disappointed that the recall will not move forward, Save Surf City officials said they were still impressed with the effort put forward by volunteers given that they had an approximately 87 percent signature validation rate according to the Orange County Registrar of Voters office. “We appreciate the [signature validation rate] as evidence of …