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   From: amused@glaad.org   
      
   Seattle Mayor Ed Murray (D), embattled by child sex-abuse   
   allegations, will resign Wednesday.   
      
   Murray’s spokesman, William Lemke, told The Washington Post that   
   the resignation takes effect at 5 p.m.   
      
   The announcement comes just hours after the Seattle Times   
   reported new allegations that Murray, 62, sexually abused a   
   relative in the 1970s. That relative, a cousin, was the fifth   
   man to publicly accuse the mayor of sexual assault, the   
   newspaper reported.   
      
   Murray continues to deny the accusations.   
      
   “While the allegations against me are not true, it is important   
   that my personal issues do not affect the ability of our City   
   government to conduct the public’s business,” he said in a   
   written statement released Tuesday.   
      
   Elected mayor in 2013, Murray dropped his reelection bid in May,   
   after the first four men claimed he had sexually abused them   
   years earlier, when they were teenagers.   
      
   One of the men filed a lawsuit against the mayor in April,   
   alleging that Murray “repeatedly criminally raped and molested”   
   him when he was a homeless 15-year-old in the 1980s.   
      
   But Murray, a nationally known champion of gay rights and   
   progressive causes, had resisted calls to resign.   
      
   Seattle is home to nearly 715,000 people and one of the nation’s   
   fastest-growing economies, fueled in large part by the steady   
   expansion of the major tech firms headquartered there.   
      
   City Council President Bruce Harrell will step in to serve as   
   mayor. Seattle’s charter gives him five days to decide whether   
   to remain through the rest of Murray’s term, Harrell announced   
   in a statement.   
      
   https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-   
   nation/wp/2017/09/12/seattle-mayor-ed-murray-resigns-amid-   
   mounting-sexual-abuse-allegations/?utm_term=.d88872e66586   
              
      
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