A mayor in Ohio has stepped down after suggesting last week that allowing residents to go ice fishing could be a slippery slope that leads to prostitution.
Hudson Mayor Craig Shubert submitted his resignation on Monday, saying the comments made during a City Council meeting, which drew national attention, were his attempt at a “bit of dry humor” and made “out of concern for his community” based on his experience working in television news.
“Some in our community saw this as an opportunity to engage in the politics of personal destruction by means of character assassination, blaming me for the negative international press they helped to promote,” Shubert wrote. ” I have, therefore, decided to step down as mayor to allow for new leadership, a clean slate, and a path forward.”
Shubert, who was elected in November 2019, made the comments while discussing a request to allow residents to go ice fishing in the city.
OHIO MAYOR SUGGESTS ICE FISHING LEADS TO PROSTITUTION
“If you open this up to ice fishing, while on the surface it sounds good, then what happens next year? Does someone come back and say they want an ice shanty?” Shubert said in a video of the City Council meeting. “Then, if you allow ice fishing with shanties, then that leads to another problem, prostitution, and now you’ve got the police chief, police department involved.”
Hudson mayor thinks ice fishing leads to prostitution! Put your poles away boys!*
*Same guy who thinks creative writing classes are child pornography. pic.twitter.com/9N0R2tVri6
— Amanda Weinstein (@ProfWeinstein) February 9, 2022
An ice shanty can be of various types of materials, but it is typically a type of shed placed on a frozen lake and used to provide shelter while ice fishing.
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Shubert went viral last September when he issued an ultimatum to school board members over what he considered was child pornography included in course materials, saying that members could either resign or be charged. The material was later pulled despite the superintendent arguing that the creative writing section in question was not assigned.
