At a noon meeting Tuesday, the Falmouth City Council voted unanimously to remove Mayor Sebastian Ernst on three charges. Ernst didn’t attend the meeting and calls the charges frivolous and unsubstantiated.
One charge was that Ernst denied a request from the Pendleton County Republican Party to hold a meeting in council chambers after working hours. Ernst, a Republican, acknowledges he’d let the party meet there before, and that he’d said the party had moved away from what he calls “conservative Christian values,” but says that’s not why he said no.
