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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 decided to hash out his feelings on social media, telling everyone and we do mean everyone, EXACTLY...

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 a target, and Boyd’s lack of empathy made him an easy one. The mob will soon move on. But there�...