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Ohio mayor resigns [over] alleged gay slurs
Ohio mayor resigns[over] alleged gay slursAMANDA LEE MYERS and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
Associated Press
CINCINNATI — The mayor of a small southeastern Ohio community resigned Saturday over accusations that she repeatedly called a gay police officer queer in front of his colleagues and created a hostile work environment, at one point saying, “I don’t like a queer working for the village.”
Mary McAngus, the 78-year-old mayor of the Village of Pomeroy, submitted a letter of resignation as mayor of the town of 2,000 along the Ohio River just across from West Virginia, said Jackie Welker, the village council president and now-acting mayor.
“It just seems so absurd, even in our town in Appalachia, that this could still happen,” Welker told The Associated Press. “Hopefully this resignation will start the healing.”
McAngus did not immediately return a call to her home for comment Saturday....
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