‘Low-Level Smear Campaign’: Texas Town in Turmoil as City Manager Suspended Over 1-Second Pole-Dancing Video Allegedly Taken on Taxpayer-Funded Trip

A video showing the chief executive of a small Texas town pole dancing on a public street, allegedly during a work-related trip, has ignited a wave of mixed reactions online, with some voices demanding her resignation and others advising her critics to lighten up.Dayton City Manager Kimberly Judge, the first woman and Black person to serve as city manager, issued a statement defending her record and denouncing the video’s release as part of a “low-level smear campaign,” while urging the community to see through what she described as a “false narrative.”Following the release of the viral footage, the Dayton City Council held a special session on Monday night, where they voted to place Judge on administrative leave while they consider whether she will keep her job.During an emotional meeting to address the matter publicly for the first time, the council launched an investigation into the backstory of the video, including the time and place it was filmed, and the circumstances surrounding what many were calling a big nothing-burger.“It’s been insinuated it was on a trip for a city function but again there’s no context on the video,” Dayton resident and former city council member Sherial Alwson said, according to KHOU-11....