Homosexual Seattle Mayor Says He Won’t Resign Following Sexual Abuse Allegations
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said he will not resign from office following calls from city leadership to do so.
Murray made the announcement Monday, stating “We do not need the sort of abrupt and destabilizing transition that a resignation would create.”
JUST IN: Mayor Murray's response to calls for resignation; pic.twitter.com/iCTXneukXU
— Jon Humbert (@jonhumbert) July 17, 2017
Calls for the city’s first openly gay mayor’s resignation came after four men, one of them his foster son, claimed Murray sexually abused them as teenagers in the 1980s.
Four city councilmembers issued a statement of their own, following Murray’s announcement Monday afternoon.
MORE "JUST IN:" 4 councilmembers issue statement about Murray allegations: pic.twitter.com/fAAK9wRwA2
— Jon Humbert (@jonhumbert) July 17, 2017
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