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Council members accuse Mayor Butler of hidden insult in veto message; mayor says she stands by veto
Summary
During the May 19 Forest Park City Council meeting, several council members sharply criticized Mayor Angeline Butler, saying text in her recently issued veto message spells a profanity directed at the council. Butler said she "stands by" the veto and invoked the charter.
Mayor Angeline Butler’s written veto of a recent council action prompted a heated exchange at the City of Forest Park’s May 19 council meeting when several council members said portions of the document, read aloud in the meeting packet, spelled an obscenity across line breaks.
Councilwoman Gunn, who raised the issue during discussion of the mayor’s veto message, said she believed the mayor had intentionally embedded the phrase. “I cannot believe you stood up here and you faced me and everybody on this panel. And you had the audacity to stand here and spell out F U C K Y O U,” Gunn said.
The dispute dominated…
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