Karen Williams was allegedly more than three times over the legal limit when she crashed the car last month. She says she will seek a period of unpaid leave before her case heads to court on August 1.
There are fresh calls for Redland City Mayor Karen Williams to resign after she was charged with drink driving on Saturday.The Mayor has taken unpaid leave to undergo counsellingPolice will allege Ms Williams was three times over the legal limit when she crashed her car on June 23.
Ms Williams described her actions as a "serious personal error of judgement" and said she had received abuse since the incident. "She needs to resign from her job and she needs to go and sort out whatever's causing these issues with what's happening with her right now because it is not up to us to keep sitting here and pushing her to do that, she needs to resign," Ms Lindsay said.
Ms Lindsay said Ms Williams called her on the night of the incident and she told the Mayor her position was untenable."You cannot do that job anymore. No-one will trust you and how dare you drink before that meeting, this was serious for us.Ms Lindsay started a petition last week, which has since garnered 6,000 signatures, calling on Ms Williams to resign as mayor.
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