Texas mayor quits after calling residents 'lazy' and 'weak' amid power outages from storm

[BumRushDaShow]

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 owned 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 parish.""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.

Link to tweet

https://kvia.com/news/texas/2021/02/16/texas-mayor-quits-after-calling-residents-are-lazy-and-weak-amid-power-outages-from-storm/

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alyssa
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@achavez48
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.
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12:29 PM · Feb 16, 2021

That's Raygunism on steroids. They are brainwashed zombies. But like the coward he is, he cut and run.

[kcr]

1. I'm going to bash away at this

I don't care if it hurts some fee fees.

[RicROC]

2. it's a good thing he resigned...

not doing his job and collecting a paycheck would be considered immoral.

[Zoonart]

3. Holy S***!

When did the American people sign up for the Hunger Games?
I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I thought I had lost the ability to be shocked.

[Squinch]

4. RepubliQans think the only legitimate use of our tax money is to make them richer.

I'm guessing he had no problem taking his socialist paycheck.

[Tien1985]

5. I am absolutely stunned

I honestly did not believe one of them would hold their own constituents to those standards. I am horrified for the people of Colorado City. I guess it shows consistency and a type of soulless integrity in his murderous values.

I hope they get the help they need now that this guy resigned.

[lunasun]

7. ++When I was reading this I thought wow this person was raised on Reagan or if older

When I was reading this I thought wow this person was raised on Reagan or if older, he is still holding on to all his Reagan beliefs
I was surprised to see your comment when I got to the end of the post embracing the same thought I had but hey why should I be ?
That’s exactly what it is

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Whatever Will The Other 4,600 People Do?

This guy resigned.
We've heard more than enough from this idiot, small town mayor.
He got his 2 minutes, he got creamed, and he's gone. He had no power, and now has no power. He's nothing. He won't be missed by the town. Small town mayors aren't really critical. (We live in a town of 6,000. The mayor could he a snowman and it would change nothing.)
Bigger, more dangerous people on which to focus attention.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Well in all fairness

The "average person" reacts more to what is directly impacting them and not so much what is happening "nationally". And although this Colorado City, TX incident is just a microcosm of society, it is reflecting what seems to be a common theme around the country among a huge cacophony of many similar "microcosms" that are filled with "disengaged voters".

So it's a matter of tapping into this to get people more engaged - not just every 4 years for a Presidential election, but EVERY YEAR, since there are municipal/county/state elections that happen during those "off years".

As an example, it took time for people in Ferguson, MO to finally realize that almost 7 years later and bring about a change. And in a number of cases, when organizations like Indivisible (and now others) step in to help people "make change", then they can actually get people to run who aren't spouting nonsense like "socialist socialist socialist" having no idea what they are spouting other than talking points that were converted into some sort of distorted invective.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Living In A Town...

...not much bigger than CC, i think you're overstating the influence a mayor has.
We've lived here 40 years and not one mayor ran as a D or an R.
I could guess which party most of them followed, but the races themselves weren't D vs. R.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Right now, one of my sisters lives in a town of 5000

that I actually live blocks from and where I often shop (since the sales tax here in Philly is 8% and there, like the rest of PA is 6%).

They have NO "mayor" either. However the town joined with a few neighboring similarly populated "towns" to form what they call a "township" of 20,000 that has a loose governing body (a "Board of Commissioners" ), and where they share resources like police/fire/libraries/trash & street maintenance, etc.

So please spare me.

The issue is that these small locales have some point of contact, be it a "mayor", or "Commissioner(s) ", to the Counties they are in, and that "mayor" or other contact, is usually responsible for keeping that communication channel open to the County for things like emergencies.

[ProfessorGAC]

28. Your Turn

To spare me.
It's a nothing role filled as a popularity contest.
All your protestations don't change that.

[BumRushDaShow]

29. Regardless of whether you consider it a "popularity contest" or not

the issue has to do with those who are being negatively impacted and they often look for the "closest" one to complain to and that is usually someone "locally" first, before they try to fathom what is going on "inside the beltway". It's a pretty simple concept really.

And it's also a life lesson about how "words matter" and in this case, not only is he out of his job but his wife is now too -

Texas mayor resigns after telling residents desperate for power and heat "only the strong will survive"

By Christopher Brito

February 17, 2021 / 12:31 PM / CBS News

(snip)

Boyd said his wife was "fired" after his comments and that he wasn't speaking as an official of Colorado City or the county where it sits, Mitchell County. He added that he had not signed up to run again for mayor earlier this month.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-boyd-mayor-colorado-city-texas-resigns-power-outages/

[Siwsan]

9. I wonder if being the mayor of a town of 4,000 was his full time job.

Nothing I've read has any other occupation listed for him. And, he said his wife was either laid off or fired from her job (he says both things in the article linked below), "based off the association people gave to her and the business she worked for."

All in all, what a world class jerk.

Link to another article:
https://meaww.com/tim-boyd-colorado-city-texas-mayor-resigns-facebook-post-power-outages

[Hugin]

10. Tah!

Asshole.

(Keep in mind: Without the entire GrOPper enabling hierarchy and all of the PR and legal advisement they can buy, Trump would sound exactly like this guy every time he opened his porcine mouth.)

[Laurelin]

11. I appreciate his honesty, though

It's about time those Ayn Rand types admit that things like electricity and water are actually some of those socialist policies they hate so much. And that they believe in survival of the fittest, and richest.

[Liberal In Texas]

12. Another RWer in government that doesn't understand the concept of government.

Repubs can't govern. That's how we end up in these terrible situations. We have government so we can use our collective power to solve problems that are too big for individuals to handle on their own. Things like fire fighting, police, highways, pandemic deterence and electric, gas and water infrastructure.

[cwydro]

13. The weak will "parish." Wtf?

[marmar]

16. I though it was Texas, not Louisiana. LOL

[LiberalFighter]

14. I noticed several news reports not quoting him accurately like they should.

The media used "No one owes you or your family anything".

While his Facebook page had "No one owes you are your family anything"

They at least used his spelling for perish as parish.

[LiberalFighter]

15. They should tar and feather the guy before running him out of town.

At least that is what they would have done in the old days.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

19. And

He could stay warm that way!

[Aristus]

20. They weren't asking for a hand out, you hamhock!

Just the power they paid for.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. You just made me think this

(sorry... )

[MissMillie]

23. lol

Well, if the government isn't there to do anything, then it follows that we don't need a government, or a mayor for that matter.

Good riddance!

[lame54]

24. He gets paid till the day they actually need him - then he quits...

This jobs hard. I'm leaving.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. Doesn't want the culpability

Imagine that...

[MoonlitKnight]

26. Another example of saying the quiet part out loud.

A substantial portion of the QOP is thinking this every day. It’s why they don’t actually have a platform to run on because this is the official party platform.

[BumRushDaShow]

27. It shows the shallowness just like this that I finally got chance to follow up on

'I got no defense': Ted Cruz responds after viral tweet mocking California energy policies resurfaces amid Texas storm

Erin Snodgrass and Grace Panetta
14 hours ago


Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas struck a rare conciliatory tone Tuesday after Twitter users lambasted him for a resurfaced August tweet in which he mocked what he described as California's "failed energy policies." Millions of Texans have been left without electricity for sometimes-lengthy periods of time over the past few days because of severe winter weather.

Many accused Cruz of hypocrisy for criticizing California's power infrastructure over the wildfires and extreme heat waves that plagued the West Coast last summer when his state's infrastructure had proved unable to handle its own inclement weather. "I got no defense," Cruz tweeted Tuesday, responding to the critiques. "A blizzard strikes Texas & our state shuts down. Not good."

Link to tweet

In August, Cruz responded to a tweet from the California governor's office urging people in that state to turn off unneeded lights and limit their use of appliances. He described the state as "unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity." He then said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York as well as the Biden-Harris presidential ticket wanted to make what he called California's "failed energy policy" the national standard.

Link to tweet

Now, Texas' power grid has been overwhelmed, with a higher-than-usual demand for electricity coinciding with a supply threatened by large amounts of ice and snow and freezing temperatures. As of Tuesday evening, more than 3 million Texans were without power, according to the outage-tracking site PowerOutage.us. The power outages, which have included rolling blackouts meant to limit the strain on the system, have affected designated warming centers and shelters.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz-responds-to-past-tweet-mocking-california-amid-texas-storm-2021-2

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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
I got no defense.
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A blizzard strikes Texas & our state shuts down. Not good.

Stay safe!
The Hill
@thehill
Texas lawmakers' tweets mocking California power outages resurface amid winter storm http://hill.cm/FL58lsd
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7:22 PM · Feb 16, 2021

Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
California is now unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity.

Biden/Harris/AOC want to make CA’s failed energy policy the standard nationwide.

Hope you don’t like air conditioning!
Office of the Governor of California
@CAgovernor
We must do our part conserve energy through 10 PM:
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Turn off unnecessary lights
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Avoid using major appliances
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Set thermostat to 78 or higher

Get more info on energy conservation.
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1:20 PM · Aug 19, 2020

I wouldn't be surprised if he deletes the tweet later.

OUR President signed the declaration of Texas as a Disaster Area several days ago but these jackasses continue to persist and their abject lack of self-awareness, arrogance, and cruelty keeps repeating over and over and over.

[cwydro]

30. He's a turd, and I'm glad he's gone.

People do need to learn, however, to have their own supplies for an emergency.

It's a habit with me, but I think many probably can't even handle not getting a Mickey D fix when hungry. People should know how to look after themselves and even their neighbors.

[BumRushDaShow]

31. Was looking at some info on this town

and it is the County seat for their county. If anything, instead of an asinine rant, he could have just printed out some materials for residents from FEMA on winter weather planning - e.g., - https://www.fema.gov/blog/get-ready-winter-weather or https://www.ready.gov/winter-weather

The whole county is less than 10,000 and it appears the only "officials" the county (Mitchell) itself has are either court-related or tax collection related.