Mayor Chris Montgomery will not seek re-election in November.
The mayor wrote his plans in a letter he hoped to publish to coincide with the Monday, Feb. 7, town board meeting, but a draft was prematurely published on BusinessTodayNC.com, Montgomery told Mooresville Weekly on Thursday. In the letter, addressed to friends, family, town staff, town commissioners and citizens, Montgomery acknowledges that some elected officials have asked for his resignation but that he has no intentions of resigning.
“I am committed to completing this term as your mayor, but will not seek reelection,” Montgomery wrote. “Rather, I will focus on my faith and family.”
At their meeting on Monday, commissioners expect to discuss, for the first time publicly, the recent media firestorm that began with the exposure that Montgomery used town e-mail to frequently communicate with a woman who is not his wife and then applied for a job with a group of developers that had business before the town.
Commissioners could decide on Monday to begin an investigation into Montgomery’s actions, the first step toward censuring him per the town’s Code of Ethics.
In his letter, Montgomery wrote that he is “sad to have caused a scandal.”
“Let me make no excuses, I made a mistake. I publicly ask for your forgiveness regarding my lack of judgment, Last November I was entrusted to make sound decisions. In many ways I let you down. I am sorry. I fully understand the repercussions that have reverberated throughout our region.”
For a full copy of the letter, visit BusinessTodayNC.com.
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Montgomery is owning up. If he chooses not resign, that's fine. Now that he has decided NOT to run again, the board has no reasons to pursue the allegations of any "ethical" breach of conduct. It would not be in interests of the board's time, furthermore, the people's. He will be gone in months. Hopefully Mooresville will have better options on the next ballot for this clown show.
Options no better if Atkins and Honest Carney wants to be mayor
Do not every mention Carney and Atkins as mayor these two have got to leave permanently - Atkins is trying to become another Joe Knox as a famliy to run Mooresville we cannot stand another seige of Neptisom
There is somebody on here who can neither read nor write AND clearly is very afraid that Commissioner Miles Atkins may become our next mayor.
I have been keeping up with all the town news very closely for approximately ten years, and I can see for myself that Miles Atkins, Rhett Dusenbury, and Thurmond Houston are the only three elected officials whose noses are pretty clean.
Whoever the illiterate poster is, please stop insulting our intelligence. You clearly have your own candidate you are trying to push. Let us know who that is so that we will know who to absolutely NOT vote for in November!
The "illiterate poster" happens to be one of our former commissioners - Frank Owens. We usually ignore him and he goes away. He's still sore because his strongarming tactics to get on the ABC board didn't work. And he probably wants to push Dumburg (opps, I meant Thunburg) through, like we didn't learn our lesson already when Dumburg saddled us with $93 million cable sweetheart deal. Dumburg's lucky he hasn't been investigated for his part in all that.
Frank Owens hates Miles Adkins because Frank Owens was corrupt to the core and Miles Atkins is incorruptible. And it goes without saying that the corrupt people and incorruptible people in this town are like oil and water. The two do not mix too well.
Chris M, thanks for telling us you will not be back, So now for sure, we have a lame duck Mayor. So now you'll hang around Town hall till your term runs out.
Mooresville, we deserve better! Chris, go NOW and do the right thing, for a change! Resign on Monday night rather than face the embarrassment of a censure.
Enjoy the break Redmond and company. When we get done cleaning up Mooresville we are coming to clean house in the County. You better put some hurricane straps around those rocks you live under.
Its the ivory tower syndrome, apparently the Mayor is above disciplinary actions for bring bad light and ill repute upon the town.
The politicians of the past, Mayor, Board Members, Town Attorney, etc ... were bigger turds, profiting off the tax payers.
Now we have little turds who's stink that gets caught in the world wide web.
It is a real hypocritical shame that because he is Mayor he can do as he pleases without any consequences.I bet no other town employee would be given that comfortable option to go when he or she is ready, rather they would be fired, no questions asked...talk about the Ivory Tower looks and smells more like BS.
Owning up hell, how hard is it to own up when there are no consequences for you actions?
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