Mayor Booted from City Hall to Turn Tent Into Office

After a majority of the Seat Pleasant City Council voted to kick the mayor out of his City Hall office for allegedly insulting city workers, three-term mayor Eugene Grant says he’ll simply pitch a tent to hold office hours.

The Washington Post says Grant was ordered to vacate his city hall office late Monday after four of seven council members voted to punish him for allegedly berating city employees.

Grant called the council “a rogue and renegade” body that should have taken its concerns to the city’s ethics commission, involving residents in the process.

Residents who want to meet with their mayor will find him working from a tent outside City Hall.

“It’s not going to stop me from meeting with people,” Grant told the Post. “It will slow me down, but it will not stop me.”

»Read the entire Washington Post report.

»PHOTO: Seat Pleasant Mayor Eugene Grant. Credit: City website