by Leslie Layton
Councilor Scott Huber has stepped down from the Chico City Council after being subjected to attacks on social media and giving up a temporary summer job out of state.
“…given the tone and content of online discussions I genuinely fear for my family’s well-being. For all of these reasons I resign my Council seat, effective immediately,” Huber says in the June 21 letter.
“It is with regrets and sadness that I submit my resignation from the Chico City Council. Regrets that the community I love and only hoped to serve has become toxic for me, sadness that as hard as I tried modeling civil discourse and respectful treatment of people from the dais, I have clearly failed at changing anyone.”
Huber, who conducted himself with grace, was one of two liberal members of the Council and has been blamed in recent days for creating a problem with “transients” in the city. In a June 7 post on a Citizens for a Safe Chico Facebook page, he was identified as one of several “extremists and enablers” who are “to blame when you see a new transient camp pop up in your neighborhood.”