Mayor of a Texas town quits after calling residents ‘lazy’ and ‘weak’ amid power outages from storm – KVIA kvia.com

The mayor of a Texas town of about 4,000 residents resigned on 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.

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