Former Mayor George Fuller has asked law enforcement to look into the petition seeking a recall election for four McKinney City Council members, and McKinney police have passed his complaint to the Texas Rangers, The Dallas Morning News reported Friday.
The Rangers said in a statement Thursday that they are reviewing what they received from McKinney police but that "no formal investigation has been launched at this time," according to the Morning News.
Organizers turned in about 7,400 signatures last month. The petition targets Mayor Bill Cox and council members Ernest Lynch, Justin Beller and Geré Feltus. To force an election, organizers need roughly 5,800 valid signatures from registered McKinney voters, and the city secretary has been checking the pages since late September before reporting the results to the council.
The Morning News reported that review could take weeks. If an election is called, it would be held in May 2027.
What Fuller alleges
Each notarized page of the petition carries a sworn statement from the person who circulated it, saying they personally gathered the signatures and that people signed in their presence.
Fuller, who was mayor from 2017 to 2025 and now chairs the McKinney Community Development Corporation board, says he has evidence that the person signing those statements was not, in every case, the one who collected the signatures.
In a statement quoted by the Morning News, he said some people repeated that conduct, "raising serious questions about potential criminal conspiracy and whether an organized process existed."
