Superior Council Pres. Talks Threats, Healing Process

Superior City Council President Tom Fennessey says councilors and city departments are receiving threats following Hagen’s controversial remarks about President Obama being a Muslim.  

Fennessey says the e-mails and phone calls have been non-stop, and some have even been threatening. 

He says Hagen’s remarks on Facebook have alienated people from wanting to come to Superior and divided the community, which Fennessey worries will also hurt the future development of the city.

He is asking for the public to have a level head and try to resolve the issue without negativity or violence. 

“Whether people think the Mayor was right or wrong, we all kind of gotta come together in a consensus building time to get this completed, healed and move on with business — and learn from it,” said Fennessey. 

Fennessey hopes to have some sort of public town hall or round-table discussion to talk about what happened, how it was handled and how to handle a future incident of this kind — if it were to ever come up again.