The former mayor of Palmer Lake, Colorado, called people who were against land annexation for a Buc-ee’s store and other measures “terrorists” and “losers,” according to local media reports and text messages included in a lawsuit.

Glant Havenar, who resigned from serving as the town’s mayor mid-week, used the insults when talking about people opposed to the project in text exchanges with a friend, 9News reported Thursday, citing court documents.

Integrity Matters and other entities included the messages in a recent court filing for a lawsuit against the town in connection to the Buc-ee’s, according to the outlet and KRDO13 .

Before that, they had been shared in a Signal group chat by Havenar’s former friend.

The filing containing the messages alleged that Havenar tried to sw

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