Va. Mayor’s Prints on Hate Mail
The mayor’s fingerprints have been found on hate mail sent to community leaders, and the City Council agreed today to call for his resignation unless he offered proof that someone else was responsible.
“Council unanimously condemns the actions of the mayor of Portsmouth,” Vice Mayor Gloria O. Webb said after an hourlong closed meeting that Mayor James W. Holley III did not attend. Holley, a dentist who became Portsmouth’s first black mayor in 1984, had been criticized by black leaders for failing to fight the planned closing of I. C. Norcom High School, which once served the city’s black community.
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