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Bastrop Mayor Lyle Nelson Resigned: Community Distract News Rides Again

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Updated: Jan 17


Bastrop Mayor Lyle Nelson Explains why he is resigning.
Bastrop Mayor Lyle Nelson resigned at City Hall

Tuesday, January 14, 1:30 pm, Bastrop, TX: Today, we stood with Bastrop Mayor Lyle Nelson, open government attorney, Bill Aleshire, former Bastrop city attorney, longtime Bastrop community leader, David Bragg, former County Commissioner Mel Hamner, veteran activist, Carl Rees, and others, as Lyle Nelson resigned as Mayor.

The resignation came after well over a year of concerted harassment by three members of the City Council led by John Kirkland, with the help of City Manager Sylvia Carrillo, to recall Nelson for made-up reasons. It was a story, a story spread by Community Impact News despite having repeatedly been given well-established facts. We will be writing more about this soon.

Bill Aleshire, the respected attorney for open government.
The inimitable open government lawyer, Bill Aleshire
Now, watch what Bill Aleshire had to say today about how the obsession to recall Lyle Nelson was based on a lie, a lie by Mayor Pro-Tem John Kirkland ===>

Folks, the filing period to run in the May election is January 15 through February 15. There are now three seats on the City Council up for election in May: the Mayor's seat, the seat currently held by John Kirkland and the seat currently held by Cheryl Lee.


Though we accept that Bastrop Mayor Lyle Nelson resigned today, we thank him for his many years of public service and look forward to continued joint work with Lyle to make Bastrop better.

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