She must’ve done a lousy job in the estimation of White voters to have lost, because the demographics in Midland City are 70% White and just 23% Black. Black voters weren’t enough to elect a Black Mayor.
Skipper finished second in a three-way race for mayor. In unofficial results, JoAnn Bennett Grimsley won with 233 votes, Skipper received 148 votes and Lamar Spence received 59 votes.
Grimsley worked for 27 years as the town’s assistant city clerk, water clerk and court magistrate. Skipper’s husband, Virgil, decided not to reappoint Grimsley back to her position in 2012.
Grimsley was elected Midland City’s first African-American mayor in Tuesday’s election.
When asked about how she felt about Grimsley being elected mayor, Patsy Skipper said “I hope she does a great job for the city and I am very happy for her.”
Arlissa Minniefield, the town clerk and magistrate for the Town of Newton, who used to serve as magistrate in Midland City, shared the Facebook post and called for Skipper’s immediate resignation.
“It’s appalling,” Minniefield said Thursday when contacted by the Eagle. “As a former employee there, to know that you worked under people that had those kinds of feelings is very disheartening”
If the above cited quote is the 'offending speech', WE have had it as a nation.