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<\/a><\/p>\nIt followed a drama-filled and chaotic meeting inside the London Community Center on Friday afternoon, which then spilled outside in the parking lot as people were leaving. <\/p>\n
Shouting and interruptions marked Friday\u2019s special meeting of the council. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat is not democracy. That is an abuse of process,\u201d said Mayor Randall Weddle\u2019s attorney as the meeting was getting started. He was arguing that changes to the agenda to be heard next Friday were \u201crushed, irregular,\u201d and part of a \u201cpolitical process.\u201d <\/p>\n
The meeting was to add charges to the allegations against Mayor Randall Weddle. <\/p>\n
\u201cMayor Weddle either through misconduct or willful neglect failed to even appoint members of the housing authority,\u201d said acting city clerk Ashley Taylor when reading the various charges against the mayor. <\/p>\n
That motion passed 5-0 with one council member absent. Later, the council voted to accept the resignation of Charles Stacy Benge. But most of the drama inside centered on a motion to disapprove housing authority appointments. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to make it a matter of record that council is taking the liability of families being evicted from the housing authority at this moment,\u201d Mayor Weddle said to the council and the audience as the vote was being taken. <\/p>\n
\u201cOn the city, you cannot serve on two boards, we have that is illegal\u2026\u201d council member Kelly Smith Greene said. <\/p>\n
There was a lot of shouting during the meeting, especially as the motion over the Housing Authority appointments was being discussed. Then the drama spilled outside in the parking lot. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s when some people supporting the mayor tried to confront council members. <\/p>\n
\u201cSeen him out here every day. Tornado. Brother, don\u2019t tell me nothing. Hear it from other people he done it for,\u201d a woman yelled outside. <\/p>\n
Council members did not want to talk on camera after the meeting, but Weddle and some others did. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t what London is wanting. Do you think five begrudged individuals can remove someone who thousands of people voted for?\u201d said Mayor Weddle. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are very disappointed in the city council. They do not represent the citizens of London,\u201d said Leigh Howard, who said she was a London resident. <\/p>\n
The meeting to consider the charges against the mayor will take place at 9 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 5, at the Laurel County Judicial Center. <\/p>\n
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