The mayor of the Town of Evansville announced her immediate resignation after five years on the council and roughly one year as mayor, saying the system “would rather fall backwards than forward.”

In a statement released Saturday, Mayor Machado said, “My time with the Town of Evansville has come to a close after 5 years of being on council. I am officially resigning my position as the Mayor of Evansville effective immediately.”

In her remarks, she pointed to a long list of accomplishments during her tenure, but she said her departure stems from deeper frustrations. “Over the 5 years I have been witness to a system that is broken, a state that would rather fall backwards than forward, greed, power, control, back door deals … The political system is built on ‘being seen and not heard,’ and

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