The mayor of Colorado City, a small Texas town has resigned after catching heat for a post he made in the town’s social media group after plunging temperatures knock out power in Texas.
It is “not the local government’s responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink or swim, it’s your choice!,” Tim Boyd wrote in the now deleted Facebook post. “The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!”
“If you are sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because your (sic) lazy is direct result of your raising!”
“Only the strong will survive and the weak will parish (sic),” Boyd added.
In a subsequent post on Tuesday, Boyd said he “won’t deny for one minute” anything he said in the first post and announced he had resigned as mayor.
He also claims his wife was fired from her job for defending him over his comments which he says were “taken out of context.”
Millions of people remained without power in the wake of a deadly winter storm that dumped up to 8 inches of snow across the southern and central parts of the United States this week.
At least 23 people have died since winter weather began, some from the cold itself and some from attempts to escape it.
