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 David Waddell said he used Klingon to resign from the Indian Trail
Town Council on Thursday because the fierce-looking science fiction
characters valued integrity, honor and duty.
The letter indicated that Waddell, whose four-year term is up in
December 2015, plans to resign at the end of this month.
"Teach (the) city (the) constitution," said the English translation.
"I will return next time to (witness) victory."
Waddell, often a minority voice on the council, said he plans to
mount a campaign on the Constitution Party's platform for U.S.
Democratic Senator Kay Hagan's seat.
"I am going away, (but) I'm not done fighting," he said.
The city's mayor, Michael Alvarez, who also describes himself as a
Trekkie, an avid "Star Trek" fan, said he did not immediately
understand the letter and only realized Waddell was leaving when he
started getting phone calls about it.
Alvarez said he was disappointed — both by Waddell's decision to
leave the council early and his method of departure.
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But he, too, has a sense of humor, the mayor said. He wished Waddell
well, borrowing a saying from the Vulcans, Star Trek's logic-based
species whose most famous member is Spock.
"Live long and prosper!" Mayor Alvarez said.
(Reporting by John Peragine in Lake Lure, North Carolina;
editing by
Colleen Jenkins and Gunna Dickson)
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