Backlash after Colorado mayor cancels Pledge of Allegiance in Colorado town

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. He said: “Due to direct and indirect threats, inappropriate comments in and out of public meetings, and the general divisiveness this is creating in our community, we will not be doing the Pledge of Allegiance during Town of Silverton board of trustee meetings.” He did not go into detail about the threats that led to this decision, but in 2018 a meeting attendee was charged with verbally harassing another person present who opted not to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Molly Barella, a trustee of the town expressed his displeasure with the decision: “We already discussed this as a board, any other unilateral decisions we need to know about?” Mr Fuhrman retorted that he was exercising his mayoral authority by making this announcement, asking Ms Barella if there was “something that doesn’t permit me to do this?” and if so, he asked her to bring it to his attention. Ms Barella cited convention, saying the Pledge of Allegiance had been recited in meetings for “a long time”. Conservative congresswoman Lauren Boebert weighed in on the mayor’s decision online when she posted video footage of the board meeting, calling it “anti-American”.