Is the Tiffany Cossey recall happening because she's a woman?

In one of a series of YouTube videos, Carthage City Councilwoman Tiffany Cossey has posted in the final days before next Tuesday's recall election, she says she has been asked if the recall election is happening because she's a woman.

She opens and closes the three-minute video by saying she doesn't know.

During the rest of the video, however, she makes the case that it is and throws one of her three fellow city councilwomen under the bus.

"We know that men who are generally intimidated by women when they can't make them submit do tend to resort to anger. They exhibit a lot of anger. We have certainly seen our fair share of that at City Council meetings."

As examples of this anger, Cossey noted that one man had threatened another councilwoman Jana Schramm, referring to an incident in which the man told Schramm she was "next," and referred to another man who stood up and talked at a council meeting during the summer, spoke "very angrily" and "He was the subject of a restraining order by one of his many former wives."

"So is there anger involved? Yes, there is."

After that she turned her attention to Councilwoman Lori Leece.

"And those same people tend to support the one female City Council member we have who's very meek and mild and timid.

"So they do seem to have a type that they prefer."

At that point, she turns her attention to the three people who are no longer with the city, just impeached Mayor Dan Rife, former City Administrator Greg Dagnan and former City Attorney Nate Dally and notes that they're all men.

"Whether or not they closed ranks and it was the He-Man Woman Hater's Club, I don't know. but again you know there's some food for thought there.

"It makes other people wonder. It makes me start to wonder."

In conclusion, Cossey says she doesn't know if the recall is related to her gender, but "if they've chosen to target me because I'm female and if they think that they can make me submit or that they can intimidate me, they have definitely chosen the wrong woman for that."