A Florida mayor is resigning due to inappropriate texting

5years ago

A Florida mayor resigns for inappropriate texting.

The Pensacola News-Journal announced that Gulf Breeze Mayor David Landfair had resigned on Friday. Landfair had just been sworn at the Northwestern City Hall in December.

In his letter of resignation, Landfair stated that he had made a mistake and had committed to "sending inappropriate text messages to an adult woman". He did not go into the details of the texts.

Landfair said that he embarrassed his family and his friends and did not want to spend his term "defending my text message".

before being elected mayor in November, Landfair was a municipal councilor for eight years .