A Clemson City Council member who is facing criminal charges resigned today.Elouise James, whom Gov. Mark Sanford suspended from office following her indictment last month, submitted her resignation by letter, Clemson Mayor Larry Abernathy said.
Abernathy said he could not comment on James’ circumstances, but he said he considered her resignation unfortunate and praised James for her service to the city. She has served on the city council since 1997.
James was charged in September with two counts of forgery and one count of obstruction of justice in Greenville County and two counts of obtaining goods by false pretenses and one count of financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult in Pickens County.
A Pickens County grand jury indicted James on the Pickens County charges on Oct. 22 and Sanford suspended her on Oct. 30.
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7 comments:
Hey Abernathey, I consider what she did unfortunate, not her resignation.
If she did these things, she should be in jail and not on a city counsil.
She has yet to have a hearing, so I assume "innocent until proven guilty" should apply.
But the other side of that is the public is at risk if she did indeed do the crime.
For that reason - because she was in a position of the public trust - it is appropriate she was suspended and consequently resigned.
If she is proven innocent, her position on the council can be regained.
She needed to be taken out of a job involing any interaction with the public.
Guess she didn't harm any of the parents of the other members of the council then, did she?
Now if it affected them, they might have a different tune!
She may have other history yet to be discovered.
So many of our public official are not honest and trustworthy. What a shame!
I will be anxious to hear the results of this hearing, and perhaps what other devious things appear.
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