A dozen people gathered Monday morning outside of the Metro Nashville Courthouse to announce plans to file an ethics complaint against West Nashville Metro Councilmember Rollin Horton.
The group has been collecting signatures for a recall effort for the past month, and they were due Monday. Instead, the group pivoted.
A spokesperson, local conservative blogger Davis Hunt, said “the climate of fear [Horton] has created is so severe that some neighbors are afraid to submit their signatures publicly, fearing retribution.”
The complaint has not yet been finalized, organizers said, but a release said it would detail incidents of “cyber harassment, doxxing, misuse of police resources and interference with recall volunteers.”
Rachel Gladstone, a recall organizer, said Horton and his supporters have “seemingly been everywhere we are,” appearing at events where the group was collecting signatures.