GOP Mayor Resigns After Racist Texts And Email Leaks Revealed By Girlfriend

[workinclasszero]

By Nicole Lafond March 8, 2019 2:17 pm

A Republican mayor in Maine resigned on Friday after a woman he was having an affair with released a racist text message he sent her, according to several local media reports.

Shane Bouchard, the mayor of Lewiston, Maine, referred to elderly black people as “antique farm equipment,” according to the local Sun Journal citing messages that his girlfriend Heather Berube Everly made public. Bouchard resigned Friday morning and told a local CBS affiliate that he made mistakes and was not a “perfect person.”

The resignation comes just after the same woman, Berube Everly, testified at the Lewiston City Council meeting this week that she provided the mayor with internal emails from his opponent’s campaign, where she was working at the time. Those emails were later published on a website called the Maine Examiner, which was later revealed to be run by an operative for the Maine Republican Party.

After Berube Everly’s testimony, Bouchard admitted to WGME that he received the leaked emails from Democratic opponent Ben Chin’s campaign, but denied that he gave them to the Maine Republican Party. Local police are reportedly investigating the leaked emails.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gop-mayor-resigns-racist-texts-email-leaks-revealed-mistress

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Maher had on some W privileged little FUCK with a book about identity politics being the

problem in America.

Wanted to reach thru the


I dont use the W word, draws FAR too much attention of the scary kind

[workinclasszero]

2. Sure the Trump cult loves to peddle the lie that there is no more white racism against PoC

Then their emails, Facebook posts, twitter feeds etc are revealed like the GOP asswipe in this story.

There's the truth, right there!

[mr_lebowski]

3. EVERY. F***ING. TIME.

Or at least it seems that way.

It's about as reliable as loud, public homophobes actually loving them some p***s when nobodies looking.

Not that there's anything wrong with loving it ... just ... don't be freaking hypocrite about it.

Is that too much to ask?

Seems like maybe it is.

[Initech]

5. That's the one thing about this administration that I have absolutely fucking hated.

Is that they've enabled people to cry that that white people are victims of discrimination while it gives them an excuse to spout the most racist and sexist shit imaginable. And Chump enables this behavior.

[Demovictory9]

4. Kick