The ask now is for Township Council to schedule a public hearing on the matter so the Councilors can hear from the residents of Peters Township about discrimination. None of those are good options for the residents. That means she is either absolutely clueless, agrees with his social media content, or is lying. His wife is on the Township Council and she said at their meeting that she doesn’t think discrimination is a problem in Peters Township. One member of the Peters Township Council (the only woman) is the wife of William Merrell. They kicked his jagoff ass to the curb and he deserved it.Ĭommunity members are pushing the Peters Township Council to pass a local non-discrimination ordinance establishing a local Human Relations Commission. They went to every polling place to inform the voters and let them know they had other choices. They turned up to the Monday night School Board meeting. A group of Democratic voters, mostly women, rallied the troops. It seems like such a small thing, but it really wasn’t. He could not be reached for comment on Tuesday night. The former chairman of the Washington County Republican Party, who was first elected to the board in 2011, received the fewest Republican votes, at 753. On Tuesday, incumbent William Merrell fell short in his re-election bid, one of six candidates vying for five open seats. He’s still in office for his current term unless he wants to demonstrate he’s actually got some remnants of decency and resigns. He came in dead last and will not be on the ballot in the General Election. Then, on Tuesday, the voters took care of business by voting him out of office. District solicitor Jocelyn Kramer said under state school code, the board cannot remove a member due to misconduct. Merrell violated the district’s non-discrimination policies as well as shared executive session matters on his cable television program. In its motion to censure, the board stated Mr. He owned up to the nasty racist tweets, but didn’t resign. Soooo in a very snappy and necessary turn of events, racist School Board Director William Merrell got his comeuppance.įirst, the School Board censured him on Monday night.
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