No Sweat News Flashback: Mayor Resigns After Suggesting Ice Fishing Shanties Will Lead to Prostitution
It wasn’t the worst political gaff of the year, but it was close.
This week on the No Sweat News we’re looking back at some of our favorite moments from the year. Since the No Sweat News is a daily collection of the best schmucks, idiots, and dolts that litter the earth, it’s not really a greatest hits, it’s more like a “worst humans ever” type thing.
One of today’s flashbacks was when the sitting mayor of a small town in Ohio had a stern warning for the other members of the Hudson, Ohio, town council. His warning? That allowing ice fishing on the lake in the town’s park would lead to prostitution in ice fishing shanties.
Wait, what? Yep. That’s where his head went, which leads me to believe that the mayor knows all about the local houses that are engaging in the oldest known profession. Someone check this guy’s credit card records and ATM cash withdrawals.
Most people thought it was a really weird jump in logic, and oddly paranoid. The video went viral in the spring of 2022 and shortly after it all happened, the mayor stepped down. In his resignation statement, he suggested that he was just making a joke, but it seems pretty dry…
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