Lolley resigns from public boards after Facebook post

Ted Lolley, an Owensboro businessman and a member of the City Utility Commission, has been asked to resign from the commission over a misogynistic comment he made on Facebook about Vice President Kamala Harris.Lolley resigned from two other public boards as well Thursday, according to a letter he sent to Daviess Fiscal Court.Lolley made the comment in response to someone else who had posted congratulations to the new U.S. vice president. That post, from a local woman, said “Hear that sound? That’s the sound of Kamala Harris breaking the glass ceiling!”Lolley replied, “Vice whore.”He has since deleted the post, but the Messenger-Inquirer has viewed a screen shot of it.Lolley addressed the situation Thursday on his own Facebook page, but by then, word about the comment had made its way across the community, including to city and county officials.“The problem is words have consequences, and those are not the kind of comments I feel are appropriate to put on Facebook,” Daviess Judge-Executive Al Mattingly said Thursday.Lolley, who is head of the engineering firm Ted Lolley & Associates, did not return a call Thursday from the Messenger-Inquirer.The City Utility Commission oversees Owensboro Municipal Utilities.  » Read More