Posted on 08/27/2017 7:28:11 PM PDT by thecodont
Piedmont Mayor Jeff Wieler stepped down Sunday, one day before the City Council was scheduled to vote on whether to remove him over controversial social media posts about Democrats and transgender people that prompted outrage in the community.
Wieler resigned his position in a letter to the city administrator. However, he said he will remain a member of the City Council until he is termed out in November 2018.
In Piedmont, mayors are not elected but appointed by fellow council members, and the tradition is to appoint the person with the most seniority. The position is ceremonial — it has no special powers — but the mayor runs public hearings and often represents the city during events and meetings around the region.
Vice Mayor Bob McBain is now acting mayor of Piedmont, an affluent city of 11,353 surrounded on all sides by Oakland. None of the council members, including the mayor, is paid.
At an Aug. 21 council meeting, city resident Conna McCarthy — the daughter of Leo McCarthy, the late former lieutenant governor of California — read some of Wieler’s alleged Facebook comments aloud, including “Black Lives Matter encourages cop killing,” “Democrats are the plantation slave masters of today,” and “Transgenders are mentally ill.”
Wieler could not be reached for comment Sunday. In his resignation letter, he said that his continued role as mayor “is no longer tenable for the City Council.”
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These are common sense statements. I would tell them to collectively piss off.
The Sensitive Stasi forced him to resign for telling the truth.
Then again, this is CA to a T.
3 out of 3 ain’t bad.
They should focus on real issues like the Kingston-Rose Triangle.
And so? What's wrong with that?
Looks like they got that one done.
http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/06/27/new-linda-kingston-triangle-project-dedicated-in-piedmont/
You can’t turn left from Linda. It is poorly designed.
Why is it, when I hear the word ‘resigned’, I immediately assume that there’s an R associated with the person being discussed?
Because Republicans don’t have the balls to stand up for their convictions
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