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Boyd has resigned as mayor

TX Mayor Quits After Chastising His Constituents Via Social Media Get our free mobile app We can probably all agree that the winter storms over the past few days have gotten all of us a little worked up, no one wants to be without the basic comforts of water and heat, but arguably no one has been more vocal about his feelings than the now-former mayor of Colorado City Texas mayor, Tim Boyd. Mayor Boyd got so worked up over complaints about the winter weather issues from his constituents that he...

The now-former mayor of a West Texas town said he had already turned in his resignation when he wrote a Facebook post saying it was not the local government’s responsibility to help those suffering in the cold without power.

By Tuesday morning, the residents of Colorado City, Texas, were getting anxious. More than 24 hours had passed since a deadly Arctic blast knocked out power across the state, leaving them without heat or electricity in below-freezing temperatures. To make matters worse, many also lacked running water, forcing them to haul in heavy buckets of snow each time they needed to flush their toilets.

If there’s one thing people freezing inside their own homes didn’t need, it was an elected official hopping on social media, preaching about only the strong surviving, and lecturing us on government overreach. We aren’t surprised at the backlash former Colorado City Mayor Tim Boyd is getting from the same social media universe where he felt compelled to use a genuine crisis of public health and welfare to crow about excessive reliance on government. Social media is a mob ever in search of...

Updated: 18 Feb 2021, 8:17 THE Texas blackout was photographed from space and three million people are set to endure a fifth day without power - as fury continues to grow over the officials handling of the killer freeze that has ground the state to a halt. Storm Uri and extreme winter weather left millions of people across the United States without electricity or heat this week. 10 Satellite images shared by The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Wednesday showed the chilling wea...

County Commission Votes To Deny Permit For Sale Creek Apartment Project Wednesday, February 17, 2021 - by Joseph Dycus After some debate, the Hamilton County Commission voted to deny a special exception permit for a planned apartment complex in Sale Creek. The controversy surrounded being able to develop apartments on the property which may not have the septic capabilities to handle that. Commissioners Warren Mackey and David Sharpe were both proponents of the development, citing the nee...

"No one owes you [or] your family anything; nor is it the local government's responsibility to support you during trying times like this!" said the former mayor.

In his typo-ridden post, Tim Boyd wrote that “the weak will parish.”

A Texas mayor who reportedly resigned this week after sparking a backlash for telling residents impacted by winter storm power outages that “no one owes you or your family anything" is now saying his wife has been fired from her job, it has emerged.