Texas mayor quits after calling residents ‘lazy’ and ‘weak’ amid power outages from storm
COLORADO CITY, Texas -- The mayor of this Texas town of about 4,000 people stepped down Tuesday in the wake of a controversial social media post in which he said residents without electricity and water due to a winter storm are "lazy" and "weak," adding that local government and utility services owed them "nothing," ABC affiliate KTXS reported.
Now-former Colorado City Mayor Tim Boyd called complaining constituents "socialist" and then told them: "the strong will survive and the weak will perish."
"Let me hurt some feelings while I have a minute!!" Boyd continued in his post. "No one owes you or your family anything; nor is it the local government's responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink or swim it's your choice! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING!!"
He also complained that residents were looking for a "hand out" and told them to accept personal responsibility for being left in the cold.
"If you are sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are waiting for someone to come rescue you because you're lazy, is a direct result of your raising!" he wrote.
"Bottom line quit crying and looking for a handout! Get off your ass and take care of your own family!" he added.
Boyd later deleted the post after it went viral and drew significant online uproar. In a subsequent post, KTXS reported that he announced his resignation.
Colorado City mayor... literally speechless at how anyone can be this tone deaf in a public service position. People are freezing without information and PAY for these services and somehow we are still blaming socialism. 😐 pic.twitter.com/jOZbOHvIn4
— alyssa 🤠 (@achavez48) February 16, 2021
This is what happens when you don't research who you vote for for local office. Tim Boyd, mayor of Colorado City, TX, thinks electricity and water, which ppl PAY for are "handouts". From the disability community, many of whom can't even leave their homes,🖕, Tim. pic.twitter.com/Fp0XYHU3M1
— Kristen (@CripCamper2020) February 16, 2021
Give the guy a break. He drank a bottle JD!
He calls a spade a spade, and I have to agree with him. The government owes you nothing. 30 years in Idaho taught me to be self sufficient. Keep the car’s gas tank full, and have spare gas for the generator. Keep the larder stocked and about 50 gallons of water. If my neighbor is in need, I can help them too. If the natural gas quit, I might be in a bind because I donated my electric & kerosene heaters when I came to El Paso!
The electric heaters wouldn’t have worked.
Sure they would have. With the generator running and hooked into my home grid. Used them a number of times when the power went out.
K1DPR youfukkn live off the government moron! Lol. What the flock are you talking about useless elder? Lol. Hilarious.
No alberta, we earn our pension, where as you, are the unemployed, uneducated and unskilled welfare moocher.
k1dpr who funds your lazy white stay at home life? Read the Payor on your check. lol. Fed by the government white folk.
Unemployed turd!
Classic idiot trumper and it’s rhetoric.
Fire all this aholes that talk trumpism!
Some people just can’t handle leadership positions. IE. Trump.
Trump Derangement Syndrome strikes again
original maga, trump is irrelevant. So are you.
Obviously not. Mark Turner/ Charlie is still obsessed with him.
Convict markturner, ass kiss!
Them big trump mouths getting canned everywhere! Love it! Fire and get rid of all of them.
The son of a bitch states he’s a survivalist yet QUITS? Lol. Classic moron trumper. Classic low IQ trailer maggot.
Once again, any trumper, don’t vaccinate them, they need no help. They are “chingones”. Lol. “We live off the land fuuuulks”
Waaaaaaaaaahoooooooooo! Piss under the bridges!
Anti handout, anti welfare, protect our own, America first……. Bla Bla Bla…but whites stand outside stores and under bridges asking for a handout like a zoo monkey. Explain that.
ALL WHITE folk.
Mexico needs to take care of their people? Heck Madmike, Jeff Allen, K1DPR, and original maga have their kin asking for handouts! Freebies. Non taxpayers, basically running “illegally” in the US. Lol. Take care of your own before talking white smack.
They expect cities to fork out the bill and fund the street roaches.
Go check out the horizon city exit filth camp. Trash all over. Whites.
If they are Vets……heroes?
Like the traveling carnival dropped off the clowns in El Paso. Madmike, Jeff Allen, K1DPR, original maga, nadodave, etc. Los Cochinos! Dirty mfers!
Fero, the NUT JOB!!! RANT, RANT, RANT!!! YOU POChit!!! If you had a wife, girlfriend, BOYFRIEND, then maybe you’d be doing something else in the Wee hours of the morning! And speaking of WEE… YOU 2 INCH SHIT STAIN PRICK, GFY!
The village moron is at it again, oh well lets try this, the Mayor is RIGHT! people just sit around and wait for the Fed’s to come in on a white horse and save their no working @sses, the people that complain about this are the same lemmings that would sit in the cold and freeze to death before they did anything to save themselves.
‘Compassionate Conservative’? Belligerent Republican? Yes
As previously stated, some people simply aren’t capable of holding leadership positions. This is the subject. There is no mark turner or alberto. If you aren’t smart enough to carry on a conversation and you feel it necessary to continually deflect, then stop posting.
We know who, what and where your sorry ass is.