Recall efforts against city council members Danny Wyatt and Pam Harris ended

A press release issued by Howard Burnette of Crossville, the man behind recent recall efforts, says he is no longer perusing the recalls against Danny Wyatt and Pamala Harris.

The letter gives a number of reasons and outlines issues with city councilman Jesse Kerley including incidents previously reported on social media that he Danny Wyatt had confronted Burnette at the Crossville flea market a few weeks ago.

Burnette's letter says that he believe ending the the campaign "is in the best interest of the safety of me and my family." The timing of the letter is interesting considering the group had only four more days (June 24) to come up with the necessary 2225 signatures needed to put the recall on the ballot for November 8 election.  

Burnette's letter alleges "threats and actions by council member Kerley."  Burnette also wrote that he had witnessed what he called, "the assault on council member Souza" and described alleged vandalism incidents at the Mockingbird Drive home of J. R. Blankenship.  None of the items brought up in the letter have resulted in any known charges.    

We attempted to reach Burnette hoping to find out how many signatures the group had actually collected, but when he returned the call, he said he had told all his supporters to stop collecting signatures.  Burnette said he did not know how many signatures they had.  There has been much speculation that the group was still short of the necessary number of signatures.  

Councilman Danny Wyatt, one targets of the recall efforts, commented on the end of the recall efforts, "There's no hard feelings.  I'd like to thank Howard and his supporters, They exercised their first amendment rights and did what they thought was right.  I'd especially like to thank the people of Crossville that supported me and didn't support the recall.  I think we need to dust off and try to continue to make Crossville be the best place that its been for years."

Here is a video of Howard Burnette speaking before the Crossville city council at the April regular meeting stating that he wanted a completely new city council.