TORONTO – Call it boldly going where no politician has gone before – or maybe he no longer wanted to live long and prosper in council.
On Thursday, David Waddell used the Klingon language to write his letter of resignation from a town council in North Carolina.
Waddell said he chose to use Klingon, the language of a warrior race in the Star Trek TV shows and movies, as an inside joke.
“Folks don’t know what to think of me half the time,” the politician told The Charlotte Observer. “So I might as well have one last laugh.”
Mayor Michael Alvarez called the letter unprofessional.
“It’s an embarrassment for Indian Trail, and it’s an embarrassment for North Carolina,” the mayor told the newspaper.
Waddell said he is resigning at the end of this month. His four-year term expires in December 2015.
–with a file from the Associated Press
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