REPOST from late /LB
'member when Kim Gardner said "I ain’t leaving. I ain’t resigning," the George Soros-backed Gardner said during a round table discussion on youth and violence at Central Baptist Church. "I ain't doing nothing. You gonna have to remove me.”
That was reported April 29, 2023: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/soros-backed-kim-gardner-wont-resign-battle-with-state-heats-up
Yesterday, "Embattled 1st Black St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner resigns"
May 4, 2023
ST. LOUIS – Embattled St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, the city's first Black prosecutor and a Democrat, announced Thursday that she will resign, following allegations of negligence and calls for her ouster by Republican leaders.
Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey took legal steps to remove Gardner from office in February. Bailey said too many cases, including homicides, have gone unpunished under Gardner’s watch, that victims and their families are left uninformed, and that the prosecutor’s office is too slow to take on cases brought by police.
Rizzo said Gardner had planned to announce her resignation Wednesday but delayed after an assistant prosecutor in her office died in a fiery crash around 5 p.m.
“There is absolutely no reason for the Circuit Attorney to remain in office until June 1st,” Bailey said in a statement. “We remain undeterred with our legal quest to forcibly remove her from office. Every day she remains puts the city of St. Louis in more danger. How many victims will there be between now and June 1st? How many defendants will have their constitutional rights violated? How many cases will continue to go unprosecuted?”
Other Republican leaders applauded her resignation.
“She has presided over miscarriages of justice for years, hurting countless victims who put their trust in her and letting dangerous criminals escape the accountability they deserve,” U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner tweeted. “St. Louis will be better off without her.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/embattled-1st-black-st-louis-prosecutor-kim-gardner-99090505