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Citrus Heights, CA Mayor Resigns - Moves to Kentucky

Mayor Bret Daniels, a Republican, has abruptly resigned from the job citing the CA State Legislature's evil agenda. This includes the new law that bans transgender children & teenagers from being required to notify their parents.

He's going to be living in Corbin, KY, quite a change from Citrus Heights. Members of the Citrus Heights City Council aren't happy with what Mayor Daniels has done.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/citrus-heights-mayor-who-called-california-politics-evil-resigns-amid-kentucky-move/

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CITRUS HEIGHTS — The city of Citrus Heights will be without a mayor starting this weekend.

In a surprise move, current Mayor Bret Daniels said he is resigning effective Saturday and is moving immediately to Kentucky, calling California's politics evil.

The mayor's moving van was outside his home Thursday morning. He had previously announced he'd wait until the end of his term to leave the state.

"Financially, it was going to be kind of crushing and whatnot, and so out of a bigger concern for my wife and daughter, we made the decision to go ahead and finish up now," Daniels said.

Daniels said he is leaving California because he feels "evilness has permeated the state legislature."

I asked the mayor about why he used the word evil.

"There's a lot of words you can use. You can use 'bad,' 'I don't like it,' 'not for me,' but 'evil' has a sinister side to it," I told Daniels.

"It is. It is," Daniels said. "And I feel that that is the case."

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It has nothing to do with the fact he's run for 94 different offices in the last 4 years and keeps losing everything except re-election to his council seat...

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There's no provision for having an Acting Mayor if one resigns, dies or becomes incapacitated?

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That's a valid point! Supposedly the Citrus Heights City Council is going to be meeting next month to discuss the replacement of the Mayor but I have no idea what they will discuss.

It's really not a good idea to leave this close to the end of the tenure as Mayor. On the other hand, John Boehner resigned a tad over a year in his final term in the House.

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They are better off without this crazy person

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Yeah, I hope the door doesn't hit him on the way out. One less Republican politician in the State of California we have to worry about.

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Next month means early September, right after Labor Day? That would be acceptable. Waiting an entire month? That seems untenable.

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I believe the term for mayors in Citrus Heights ends every presidential year but I'd have to confirm this.

That said, the city itself is not really high profile compared to others in California. Given the now ex-mayor is out of office, it would be interesting to see if there would be a competitive mayoral race that could benefit Democrats after the interim mayor is chosen.

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The local citizenry is now much better off..using words like 'evil' tells me that dude has real issues ( not to mention, dude moved to Kentucky..??. WTF??)

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Yeah, going from Citrus Heights of all places to a place in Kentucky nobody has even heard of sounds to me like he belongs there. Maybe he ended up getting in touch with friends there and found his calling.

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