Tom Ross, the now-former mayor of Minot, North Dakota, resigned this week after a stomach-turning scandal involving a sexually explicit video he “accidentally” sent to the city attorney during work hours.
Ross’s resignation comes following a brief sexual harassment investigation initiated after City Attorney Stefanie Stalheim received the explicit footage just minutes after discussing the tragic suicide of a police officer with the mayor.
His political party affiliation was not prominently mentioned in most sources, but some reports explicitly describe him as nonpartisan.
According to the report, Ross bizarrely claimed the video was meant for his girlfriend—whose name supposedly also begins with a “C”—but was mistakenly sent to “City Attorney” allegedly due to a contact mix-up.
Ross thought a quick “delete it and forget it” plea to Stalheim would sweep his filth under the rug. But Stalheim didn’t let this slide.
Two weeks later, she filed a harassment complaint, demanding a formal apology and urging Ross to resign.
Ross “directly caused Stalheim’s inability to work in an environment free from unreasonable sexual harassment and created an offensive work environment.”
According to the New York Post, Minot, a hardworking city of 47,000 just 50 miles from the Canadian border, now