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Mayor and city council recall, Nashville, Tennessee (2020)
| Nashville Mayor and City Council recall |
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| Officeholders |
Brandon Taylor Colby Sledge Dave Rosenberg Erin Evans Kyonzte Toombs Russ Bradford Sean Parker |
| Recall status |
| See also |
| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 2020 Recalls in Tennessee Tennessee recall laws Mayoral recalls City council recalls Recall reports |
An effort in Nashville, Tennessee, to recall Mayor John Cooper and councilmembers Brandon Taylor, Colby Sledge, Dave Rosenberg, Erin Evans, Kyonzte Toombs, Russ Bradford, and Sean Parker was initiated in October 2020.[1] Recall organizers failed to submit enough signatures to put the recall election on the ballot.[2]
To read about other recall efforts related to the coronavirus and government responses to the pandemic, click here.
Recall supporters
The recall effort was organized Nashville resident Kimberly Edwards and a group called Nashville Citizens for Fair & Transparent Government, which accused the officials of failing to make budget cuts, unnecessarily keeping schools closed, and targeting businesses with COVID-19 restrictions.[1] Petition language against Cooper read:[3]
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Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in Tennessee
Recall organizers filed for petitions on October 12, 2020. Petitioners were required to submit about 70,000 valid signatures by November 11, 2020, to put the recall election on the ballot. Organizer Ed Smith emailed supporters on October 27, 2020, to let them know that the group was unable to gather enough signatures.[2]
Ballotpedia covered 35 coronavirus-related recall efforts against 94 officials in 2022, accounting for 13% of recalls that year. This is a decrease from both 2020 and 2021. COVID-related recalls accounted for 37% of all recall efforts in both 2020 and 2021. In 2020, there were 87 COVID-related recalls against 89 officials, and in 2021, there were 131 against 214 officials.
The chart below compares coronavirus-related recalls to recalls for all other reasons in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nashville Tennessean, "Effort to gather signatures to recall Nashville Mayor John Cooper begins," October 12, 2020
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nashville Tennessean, "Effort to recall Nashville Mayor John Cooper fails — again," October 28, 2020
- ↑ Nashville Citizens for Fair & Transparent Government, "Recall Form Instructions," accessed April 22, 2021
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
