Government Workers In Polygamous Town Quit After Non-Cult Member Becomes Mayor
Municipal workers in a Utah town run by a polygamous cult resigned en masse after a non-cultist was a elected mayor and enacted major overhauls.
In November 2017, Donia Jessop became the first candidate in over 100 years to become mayor of Hildale, who was not a member of a radical offshoot of Mormonism called the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). Six of seven town workers and 9 members of different town boards, all of whom belonged to the cult, quit after Jessop’s victory in the election, prompting her to begin a massive staff overhaul of the town government, according to The Associated Press....