"Over the last few days, I have received an overwhelming amount of support from friends, family, and colleagues, and most have resoundingly given me the same message: 'Stand and fight.' And I intend to do just that, but I can't do that effectively from the mayor's seat," Bouchard said. Here’s yet another valuable life lesson to learn from the mistakes of others. In this case, the mistake of a mayor in Maine who had to resigned over a racist text message. This is one of the screenshots released last night by Heather Berube of her conversations with Lewiston Mayor Shane Bouchard. His messages prove that he is unfit for office. Lewiston deserves a mayor who knows black people are human beings, not "farm equipment." #mepolitics pic.twitter.com/X0TFRfoNXn — Kiernan Majerus-Collins (@thekiernanmc) March 7, 2019 Oh boy. And for more icing on the bigoted cake, the texts were leaked because his alleged mistress is angry at him: In private ...