Ohio Mayor Resigns After Saying Ice-Fishing Could Lead to Prostitution, Calls Remark Attempted Humor
Photo: AP An Ohio mayor has announced his resignation after saying that ice-fishing could lead to prostitution. While debating at acity council meeting last weekwhether to allow the recreational activity at Hudson Springs Park, Mayor Craig Shubert pondered what the ramifications could be. “While on the surface it sounds good,” he said, “then what happens next year?” Shubert, a Republican official in the Akron-area town, suggested that permitting it could lead to people requesting the use of anice shanty, a portable shed placed on a frozen lake to provide shelter while dropping fishing lines through a hole in the ice....