DeclinetoState
09-09-2006, 03:09 PM
This is a hoot.
Mayor, Councilman Also Resign Amid Backlash Over Internet Postings
By TIM TALLEY, AP
SNYDER, Okla. (Sept. 8) - The police chief, the mayor and a councilman from this small, southwestern Oklahoma town resigned Friday, saying they were fed up with the public attention and criticism they received after the chief's wife appeared in various nude poses on a Web site and the photos began circulating around town.
http://cdn.news.aol.com/aolnews_photos/06/04/20060908155409990010
Three officials resigned from a small town, saying they were fed up with criticism after the police chief's wife, shown here, appeared nude on the Internet.
"This has turned into a media circus," Chief Tod Ozmun said Friday. "I don't feel like me staying in office is going to benefit my department or my staff. This has turned into a mess. This is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous."
Dozens of local residents had called for Ozmun's resignation, but the City Council decided last week that Doris Ozmun's adult pictures were protected by the First Amendment. A prosecutor had called for an investigation.
The chief read a statement from Clifford Barnard, the councilman who resigned:
"The citizens' concerns that we were not enforcing religious and moral beliefs was very heartfelt and I don't want to be associated with their moral or religious beliefs because I've never read anywhere in the Good Book that the Lord wanted us to persecute those that did not hold the same morals or values."
Source (http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/towns-top-cop-quits-over-nude-photos-of/20060908140709990008?ncid=NWS00010000000001)
Mayor, Councilman Also Resign Amid Backlash Over Internet Postings
By TIM TALLEY, AP
SNYDER, Okla. (Sept. 8) - The police chief, the mayor and a councilman from this small, southwestern Oklahoma town resigned Friday, saying they were fed up with the public attention and criticism they received after the chief's wife appeared in various nude poses on a Web site and the photos began circulating around town.
http://cdn.news.aol.com/aolnews_photos/06/04/20060908155409990010
Three officials resigned from a small town, saying they were fed up with criticism after the police chief's wife, shown here, appeared nude on the Internet.
"This has turned into a media circus," Chief Tod Ozmun said Friday. "I don't feel like me staying in office is going to benefit my department or my staff. This has turned into a mess. This is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous."
Dozens of local residents had called for Ozmun's resignation, but the City Council decided last week that Doris Ozmun's adult pictures were protected by the First Amendment. A prosecutor had called for an investigation.
The chief read a statement from Clifford Barnard, the councilman who resigned:
"The citizens' concerns that we were not enforcing religious and moral beliefs was very heartfelt and I don't want to be associated with their moral or religious beliefs because I've never read anywhere in the Good Book that the Lord wanted us to persecute those that did not hold the same morals or values."
Source (http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/towns-top-cop-quits-over-nude-photos-of/20060908140709990008?ncid=NWS00010000000001)