Just a week after Woodbury County Supervisor Jeremy Taylor’s wife Kim was found guilty of more than 50 counts of voter fraud, Taylor announced at Tuesday’s board meeting he will not resign his seat.
Despite the fact that three of his fellow supervisors published letters asking him to leave the board of supervisors, Jeremy Taylor announced at yesterday’s meeting that he was not going to do that.
“I plan to complete my term on the board of supervisors, but I will work hard to continue to complete my term and then I’m going to focus on my family.”
Taylor did offer to resign from the office of vice-chair of the board and the board will consider that at its next meeting.
Daniel Bittenger, Mark Nelson and board chair Mathew Ung asked Taylor to resign a day after Kim Taylor's conviction.
Ung said he could not ignore the facts of the case. Government prosecutors say Taylor’s wife was part of a scheme to stuff the ballot box for her husband in two elections. Ung intimated that it was hard to believe that Jeremy did not know about his wife’s actions.
“And it’s hard to imagine there being a separation between husband and wife, particularly since we all know that you do have a healthy marriage, and it’s hard to imagine a world where what actions and steps here taken by one were not known by the other.”
During citizen concerns part of the meeting there were calls for Taylor to stay and calls for him to leave the board.
Woodbury County Auditor Pat Gill presented a previously unseen resolution to involve the state attorney general in the prosecution of Taylor.
However, Ung said that no action had been taken by the Woodbury County Attorney or the state attorney general’s office to remove Jeremy Taylor from office.
