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The council of
West York, a community less than 100 miles (160 km) west of
Philadelphia, voted unanimously on Monday to accept Mayor
Charles Wasko's offer to resign, according to the York Daily
Record.
Wasko's resignation will be effective on Oct. 21, with the
president of the council filling out the rest of the mayor's
term until an election next year, the newspaper reported. His
second term will end in January 2017.
Wasko had resisted calls to step down earlier this month, after
he was accused of racism for the images on his page. The West
York Borough Council voted 7-0 on Oct. 3 to censure him over the
posts.
There have been instances across the country of government
officials spreading racist images and jokes since Obama took
office in 2009 as the first African-American U.S. president. In
2013, a federal judge in Montana retired after acknowledging
that he had used court email to circulate a racist joke about
Obama.
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles, editing by Larry
King)
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