The Dallas Express reported that five McKinney voters filed a recall affidavit on August 11 targeting Mayor Bill Cox and council members Ernest Lynch, Geré Feltus, and Justin Beller, citing loss of public confidence.
Record check
Did the record support “McKinney Residents Launch Recall Against Mayor and Council Over Islamic Center Approval”?
Part of this event: McKinney Residents Launch Recall Against Mayor and Council Over Islamic Center Approval
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How the record moved
The campaign site says official City petition pages were issued August 13, the signature window is open through September 26, and 50 campaign-confirmed signatures have been returned toward 5,805 required.
The petition is in active signature collection with a campaign-reported count; no city certification, ballot order, direct response from the four targeted officials, or qualifying registered coverage is retained.
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The direct report preserves the filing details, petition threshold, named targets, organizer statement, mosque-vote timing, and lack of responses before publication.
Evidence state
developing
The city-filed recall affidavit or petition sheets, signature certification, official response from the four named officials, or registered coverage of the petition's progress.
Receipts
- captured headline
McKinney Residents Launch Recall Against Mayor and Council Over Islamic Center Approval
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- subject identity
subject identity
The directly fetched article identifies five petitioners and their committee notice designee, but the complete official filing was not located and registry review remains pending.
Open source receipt - originating speaker
The Dallas Express published the earliest located X launch post and linked report, while the underlying event was a filing by five voters.
Direct X extraction established the post, timestamp, wording, and article link; no exact synthesized-headline post or organizer-owned origin was found.
Open source receipt - reporter publication
Carlos Turcios is the displayed investigative-reporter byline on the August 13 report.
The directly fetched page exposed the reporter name, role, publication branding, headline, and publication date.
Open source receipt - atomic claim
The Dallas Express reported that five McKinney voters filed a recall affidavit on August 11 targeting Mayor Bill Cox and council members Ernest Lynch, Geré Feltus, and Justin Beller, citing loss of public confidence.
The directly fetched report states the filing date, number of petitioners, named officials, quoted sworn ground, and that filing does not itself place an election on the ballot.
Open source receipt - primary source evidence
The direct report preserves the filing details, petition threshold, named targets, organizer statement, mosque-vote timing, and lack of responses before publication.
The article body and byline were directly fetched and content-hashed; the city-filed affidavit itself was not located.
Open source receipt - response correction
The reported sworn ground was loss of public confidence and did not name the Islamic-center vote; organizer John Aselton said the effort extended beyond one issue, and the four targeted officials had not responded before publication.
All three points appear in the directly fetched article and materially narrow the causal framing in the captured headline.
Open source receipt - resolution evidence status
A direct report supports that the filing started a petition process, but the official affidavit, certified signatures, ballot qualification, and official responses remain outstanding.
The report explicitly distinguishes filing from ballot placement, while official-site and registered-source searches did not produce later procedural evidence.
Open source receipt - captured headline
McKinney Residents Launch Recall Against Mayor and Council Over Islamic Center Approval
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- primary source evidence
The campaign site says official City petition pages were issued August 13, the signature window is open through September 26, and 50 campaign-confirmed signatures have been returned toward 5,805 required.
The campaign-controlled page was directly fetched and clearly labels the count as campaign-confirmed while reserving legal sufficiency to the City Secretary.
Open source receipt - response correction
The recall committee disputed former Mayor George Fuller's mosque-vote framing, reiterated broader stated concerns, and said a questioned affiant was replaced before official petition papers were issued.
The directly fetched August 15 follow-up retains the committee's response, Fuller's argument, the affidavit ground, and the procedural clarification.
Open source receipt - resolution evidence status
The petition is in active signature collection with a campaign-reported count; no city certification, ballot order, direct response from the four targeted officials, or qualifying registered coverage is retained.
The campaign page and follow-up report establish the current phase while expressly reserving legal sufficiency to the City Secretary.
Open source receipt - captured headline
McKinney Residents Launch Recall Against Mayor and Council Over Islamic Center Approval
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- cross publication coverage
Yahoo Finance carries a syndicated Dallas Express report on the filing, named officials, sworn ground, and mosque-vote timing.
Registered-host search returned the canonical URL, exact headline, date, and syndication origin; direct fetch failed with a header-overflow error, so no excerpt is retained.
Open source receipt - captured headline
McKinney Residents Launch Recall Against Mayor and Council Over Islamic Center Approval
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This page is a source-linked record. It does not score a person, infer motive, or replace the preserved source material.