McKinney Mosque Vote Sparks Recall Effort Targeting Mayor, 3 Council Members
13th August 2026
After the McKinney City Council unanimously voted to approve a mosque relocation proposal, a group of residents is now pushing a recall effort against several members of the council.
On Wednesday, Ashley Marie, a local resident, announced on X that a recall effort was underway. The petition seeks to recall McKinney Mayor Bill Cox and Council Members Justin Beller, Geré Feltus, and Ernest Lynch.
“This recall exists because the government does not get the final say—We the People do. When elected officials ignore the community and force decisions we never approved, they forfeit the right to stay in power,” Marie told the Daily Signal in a written statement. “We are seeing it with the amphitheater, the airport.”
The petition states that the grounds for removal are based on “a loss of public confidence in the ability of the officers named herein to faithfully represent the citizens of the City of McKinney.”