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Cowboys for Trump leader won t resign his Otero County post
March 16, 2021
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ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin has said he will not resign his seat on the Otero County Commission as he awaits trial in connection with the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol.
Griffin made the declaration in response to a press release issued last week by county commissioners Gerald Matherly and Vickie Marquardt calling for Griffin s resignation, The Alamogordo Daily News reported Saturday.
The topic took up more than an hour of the commission s meeting last Thursday after it was placed on the agenda for discussion. Matherly attempted to have it removed from the agenda, but was overruled. Marquardt defended the letter and reasons for requesting it.
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A press release issued by Otero County Commissioners Gerald Matherly and Vickie Marquardt calling for the resignation of fellow Commission Couy Griffin occupied over an hour of the Commission s March 11 meeting.
Griffin, in response to allegations made in the statement, denied he had made racists remarks or called for violence, and indicated he would not resign his seat as he awaits the resolution of federal charges for unlawfully entering restricted areas in connection with riots at the U.S. Capitol building and an investigation by the New Mexico Attorney General on a number of different allegations.
The item was placed on the Commission s agenda for discussion only, and an early attempt to have it removed by Matherly was overruled.