Missouri alderwoman resigns over mayor’s backing of Kansas City gunman
Published April 20, 2014
(JTA) — An alderwoman in Marionville, Mo., has resigned over comments by the new mayor in support of suspected Kansas City Jewish center gunman Frazier Glenn Miller.
Jessica Wilson, who has served as an alderwoman for the last year, resigned on April 16, three days after Miller, who also goes by the name Frazier Glenn Cross, allegedly shot a man and his 14-year-old grandson outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City in Overland Park and a woman outside the nearby Village Shalom retirement community.
Daniel Clevenger, who was elected mayor of Marionville earlier this month, offered his endorsement of Miller, a white supremacist, during an interview with KSPR News.
Clevenger said he “kind of agreed with him [Miller] on some things, but I don’t like to express that too much.”
Clevenger offered a more robust endorsement of Miller in a letter he sent to a local paper several years ago.
“I am a friend of Frazier Miller helping to spread his warnings,” Clevenger wrote to the the Aurora Advertiser. “The Jew-run medical industry has succeeded in destroying the United State’s workforce.” Clevenger also spoke of the “Jew-run government backed banking industry turned the United States into the world’s largest debtor nation,” KSPR News reported.
Wilson said when the first reports of Clevenger’s support of the white supremacist came out she decided to stay in her position to help better the town. But as the comments led to divisiveness in the community and calls for the mayor’s impeachment, she decided it would be better to offer her resignation, she told local media.
City Attorney Paul Link also resigned on Friday over the mayor’s comments, according to local ABC affiliate KSPR.
A special Board of Aldermen meeting has been called for Monday to accept Wilson’s resignation and to fill the alderman’s seat vacated by Clevenger when he was elected mayor. A second meeting scheduled to be held Monday will discuss a request by two board members for the board to draft a response to Clevenger’s comments about Miller.
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