(TheBlaze) – The mayor of Colorado City, Texas, resigned on Tuesday, after receiving backlash for a controversial Facebook post where he lambasted citizens complaining about the ongoing power and water outages plaguing the state due to brutal winter storms, telling them to stop being lazy and “sink or swim.” In a post Tuesday morning, Mayor Tim Boyd declared, “Let me hurt some feelings while I have a minute!”
“No one owes you are (sic) your family anything,” he said in his public statement, “nor is it the local government’s responsibility to support you during trying times likes this! Sink or swim it’s your choice! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING!”
Boyd went on to say he was “sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout” telling folks, “If you don’t have electricity you step up and come up with a game plan to keep your family warm and safe. If you have no water you deal without and think outside of the box to survive and supply water to your family.”
He added in the lengthy message, “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 lazy is direct result of your raising! Only the strong survive and the weak will parish (sic).” READ MORE
