Florida mayor resigns with mass email to residents alleging corruption in small-town governmentA Florida mayor abruptly resigned after outlining a pattern of "corruptive behavior" throughout the small town's government in an explosive letter to all its residents last Friday.
"What is going on with this small town is all wrong," now-former Madeira Beach Mayor Jim Rostek told Fox 13 on Wednesday. "I am sorry that I have to walk away. It is for my health. Please keep up the fight. I will always try to have your back. Please continue to do what's right."
Rostek's allegations pointed to City Manager Robin Ignacio Gomez and his "discretionary" and "discriminatory" code enforcement, per the June 14 letter reviewed by Fox News Digital.
"I am sorry to leave. But with a city manager as such, I cannot be or have any part of Gomez’s corrupt behavior, talking in circles, lies, preferential treatment of ‘some’ or discriminatory enforcement practices. As well as the everyday wasting of the tax-payers' money and trying to justify it," Rostek wrote. "In the end, some will go up to the pearly gates and some won’t. I will always do what is ethical and correct, others not so much."
Gomez allegedly ignored Rostek's requests to establish a life jacket policy, a smoking policy and a formal prohibition on cell phone usage for municipal employees who are operating city boats and vehicles, the resigning mayor claimed................
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