Petition for Ouster of Danny J. Crosby, Mayor, Town of Coopertown, Tennessee

To: John Carney, District Attorney General for Robertson County
101 N 3rd St.
Clarksville, TN 37040

We the undersigned, being residents, citizens and registered voters of the Town of Coopertown, Tennessee, having lost confidence in the management of the affairs of the Town, hereby demand the state Office of Attorney General oust Mayor Danny J. Crosby from office in compliance with TCA, Title 8-47-101 through 108 for the following reasons: financial mismanagement, conflict of interest, abuse of power, use of police department to intimidate citizens, examples of which are: concealing his felony conviction until after early voting had occurred; threatening physical violence against his opponent at the polls on election day; threatening and levying of fines on citizens and others beyond legal authority; refusing to sign a plat for a citizen for zoning although the Planning Commission unanimously had approved it and then firing the State Planner who advised the committee; exposing the Town to undue risk of liability by hiring his underage step-son and an alderman's son to drive a city truck; unauthorized purchase of a city truck after existing one was wrecked; failing to publicly advertise City ordinances after passage; openly attacking and threatening citizens and Aldermen during official Town meetings for voicing dissenting views on issues facing the Board and had one such non threatening dissenter arrested and put in jail overnight; obstructing Aldermen from performing their official duties, removing them from committees, and forbidding them to speak to City attorneys and other City advisors; unilaterally changing speed limits twice in the City without consulting duly elected aldermen; violating citizen's First Amendment rights of free speech by forcing the citizen to appear in court for an acknowledged and paid traffic citation due to defendant expressing his non-threatening thoughts over receiving the citation; demonstrating a pattern of abuse of power through the use of the police department and the court system to intimidate and silence citizen dissent over his decisions and actions. Mayor Crosby has brought a negative image on the City and everyone that lives in the City due to his public, arrogant abuse of power as reported in all local and many Mid-state news media.