(Evy Mages/For The Washington Post)The mayor of a tony Maryland suburb resigned from a prominent golf club on Monday because the club might not welcome President Obama as a member. Jeffrey Slavin, the mayor of the Montgomery County town of Somerset, wrote in an email that he would not remain a member of Woodmont Country Club because of a recent fevered debate about whether Obama could join. President Obama retrieves his ball after putting on the 18th green at the Kapolei Golf Club in Hawaii. Slavin said he has spoken to many other country club members. Slavin couched his decision to quit his country club in the rhetoric of the civil rights movement: “Dr.

Source: Washington Post January 16, 2017 17:36 UTC