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Joyce Warshaw, mayor and commissioner of Dodge City, Kansas is relinquishing her elective duties. From her resignation letter:
“It is with a heavy heart that I am submitting this letter of resignation from the commission and the mayorship effective immediately today, December 15, 2020. Life has dealt out many challenges in our world that have perhaps caused many people to act inappropriately but I do not feel safe in this position anymore and am hopeful in removing myself this anger, accusations and abuse will not fall on anyone else and will calm down.”
Dodge City, like much of the country, is seeing a surge in COVID-19 infections, and Warshaw was one of the 5 commissioners who voted for the institution of a city-wide mask mandate in November. Kansas Governor Laura Kelly had previously issued a statewide mask mandate, but gave Counties the choice to opt out. Ford County, where Dodge City is seated, took that option; but with the increase in cases and deaths,
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Joyce Warshaw, forced to resign as the Republican mayor of Dodge City, Kansas for supporting a mask mandate, tells Ali Velshi that she is “embarrassed by some of the behaviors from the Republican Party,” which contributed to the environment that pushed her out.Dec. 17, 2020
DODGE CITY, Kansas (KSNW) – The mayor of Dodge City, Kansas has submitted a letter of resignation to the City Commission, effective immediately.
In her resignation letter, Joyce Warshaw refers to people behaving inappropriately with anger, accusations and abuse she has received after she publicly supported a mask mandate.
“Life has dealt out many challenges in our world that have perhaps caused many people to act inappropriately but I do not feel safe in this position anymore and am hopeful in removing myself this anger, accusations and abuse will not fall on anyone else and will calm down,” she wrote.
She said she began receiving threatening emails in early to mid-November when the initial mask mandate was put forth for discussion.
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