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Tensed Mayor Unrelenting On Eve Of Recall Vote Anybody Voting Against Him ‘Pathetic Fool,’ Dohrman Writes

The worms have turned.

Four months after Tensed Mayor Ed Dohrman called his constituents “a bunch of little, wormy, self-centered, backstabbing people,” his political fate rests in their hands.

Today, voters in the town of 90 souls will head to the polls to vote whether Dohrman should be yanked out of office halfway through his term.

His critics call him a do-nothing, unwilling to pave streets, develop a city plan or do much of anything else for the city.

They also say he’s embarrassing the town by cursing constituents at public meetings, railing at the city clerk and issuing rambling letters to the town on city letterhead.

“He does not preserve the dignity and quality of council meetings by allowing personal agendas to come before planned agendas,” is how they worded it on the ballot.

Dohrman, however, isn’t pulling any punches.

A vote against him, he wrote to voters, “is your proclamation to society that you are a ridiculously ignorant, pathetic fool.”

The recall, he opined, was the result of “a couple of arrogant, self-righteous, conniving councilmen, in defense of a pretentiously stupid city clerk.”

“My course in office,” Dohrman concluded, “has been and shall continue to be to combat this most disgustingly deceitful, manipulative, disgraceful coalition.”

Dohrman was elected two years ago to a four-year term. Running unopposed, he received 28 votes. The recall election will be decided by majority, provided at least 28 people vote to oust him. Out of the town’s 90-person population, 73 are now registered to vote.

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