Alabama’s Midland City has a new mayor, JoAnn Bennett Grimsley. She unseated the interim Mayor Patsy Capshaw Skipper, who had been serving out the term for her deceased husband. Ms. Grimsley becomes the first African-American mayor in Midland City’s history. According to numerous outlets, this was posted on her Facebook page:
According to Skipper this is some kind of hack.
“My Facebook has been messed up for several weeks and I haven’t been using it,” Skipper said when contacted Wednesday night by the Dothan Eagle. “I think I’ve been hacked.”
Skipper said she just underwent heart surgery and couldn’t even get out and campaign for the election.
“And that, my Facebook, has been the least of my worries,” she said.
Why she would be the target of hacking is pretty speculative at this point. Of course, it is possible. According to the Raw Story, while Skipper’s Facebook page has been made private, her postings are decidedly Republican.
Skipper appears to have made her Facebook timeline private, but posts from 2015 are visible. She posted various pro-Christian and pro-Republican memes, including an image of the White House that reads “I want a White House that honors God. Share if you agree!” and another with a quote by Republican former Pres. Ronald Reagan that reads, “We are never defeated unless we give up on God. Share if you agree!”
Capshaw said in the same interview where she denied writing this post that she was “happy” for Grimsley and hoped that Grimsley did a “great job.” Whether this Facebook post was real or a terrible slander one things is for sure—the GOP in our country makes it very easy to believe that someone running for elected office would say such a thing.