North Carolina Politician Resigns in Klingon!

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North Carolina Politician Resigns in Klingon!

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A North Carolina politician has chosen a memorable way to step down from his Town Council seat, an event notable less for what he said than for how he said it: The resignation was submitted in Klingon.

David Waddell, a councilman in Indian Trail, a town in Union County a few miles from Charlotte, invoked the language of the war-making race from "Star Trek" in saying he wouldn't serve out his first term. According to a report in the Charlotte Observer, Waddell provided the Klingon-language letter to Mayor Michael Alvarez "as an inside joke."

"Folks don’t know what to think of me half the time," he told the paper. "I might as well have one last laugh."

Below is a screenshot of the letter, posted on Waddell's Facebook page:

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In order to make it accessible to those not fluent in Klingon, he included a translation of the resignation. It read:

"Teach (the) city (the) constitution / I will return next time to (witness) victory. / Resignation occurs in 2014 the 31st of January. Perhaps today is a good day (to) resign."

Alvarez, however, wasn't amused, the paper said. "It's an embarrassment for Indian Trail, and it's an embarrassment for North Carolina," the town's mayor was quoted as saying.
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Chang would be proud. :lol:
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Alvarez, however, wasn't amused, the paper said. "It's an embarrassment for Indian Trail, and it's an embarrassment for North Carolina," the town's mayor was quoted as saying.
I wonder if he heard a whooshing sound as he said this. :lol:
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Awesome. Always nice to see a politician who seems like an actual human being.
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By speaking alien...
What does defeat mean to you?

Nothing it will never come. Death before defeat. I don’t bend or break. I end, if I meet a foe capable of it. Victory is in forcing the opponent to back down. I do not. There is no defeat.
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Teaos wrote:By speaking alien...
Well, it's closer than they usually are. *<:*)X
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