(Keystone Crossroads) To be exact, all but two: Utah and Mississippi. The question came up recently as West York Mayor Charles Wasko resisted calls to step down over his racist Facebook posts.
The public backlash put the 4,500-person borough on the map and prompted resignation demands from the Anti-Defamation League, Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus, Gov. Tom Wolf, an online petition signed by more than 2,000 people, and a packed house at the last Borough Council meeting.
Wasko didn't attend, so didn't hear the two hours of public testimony or see the crowd of about 150 people spilling onto the sidewalk outside borough hall.
Since then, the unapologetic mayor recently started bargaining with Borough Council about a possible resignation. Their discussion is expected to come to some sort of conclusion tonight...
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