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Tonganoxie Mayor Resigns After Sending 2nd Obscene E-Mail Date: July 29, 2010
A northeast Kansas mayor has resigned after admitting sending a pornographic e-mail for a second time from a computer he used for the city's answering service. Tonganoxie Mayor Mike Vestal apologized to the City Council on Monday night for the latest episode. He resigned yesterday (WED), telling the Lawrence Journal-World he plans to devote his life to Christ and hopes to continue serving on an economic development committee. The Journal-World reports that Vestal admitted sending the latest obscene e-mail to the brother of City Council member Paula Crook. Crook said she was with her brother, Tonganoxie police officer Danny Ruff, when he received the message July 14. Crook says she considered the 14 nude photos of the same woman hard-core pornography.

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