Missouri mayor quits after anti-Semitic remarks tied to Kansas killings

[joeybee12]

The mayor of a southwestern Missouri town resigned on Tuesday in the wake of community anger over anti-Semitic comments he made in reference to recent killings at two Jewish community facilities in Kansas.

Dan Clevenger submitted a hand-written, one-sentence letter of resignation as mayor of Marionville, Missouri, a town of 2,225 people about 240 miles southwest of St. Louis.

Clevenger had enraged the community after he said in a televised interview last week that he "kind of agreed with" the views of Frazier Glenn Cross, who has been charged with murdering three people outside a Jewish community center and a retirement home in Overland Park, Kansas, on April 13.

Cross, who also went by the name Glenn Miller, was an avowed white supremacist and an admirer of Adolf Hitler, according to writings posted on his website.

http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/missouri-mayor-quits-after-anti-semitic-remarks-tied-to-kansas-killings

[LeftishBrit]

1. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[Brother Buzz]

2. The one sentence, "I, Daniel R. Clevenger, do hereby resign as mayor of Marionville."