INTERVIEW — Somerset Mayor JEFFREY SLAVIN

Somerset Mayor Quits Woodmont Country Club over Obama Membership Flap. Somerset Mayor Jeffrey Slavin resigned Monday from the Woodmont Country Club in Rockville because of a controversy over whether the mostly Jewish club would allow President Barack Obama to join. According to his resignation letter, he chose Monday because it is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. “I can no longer belong to a community: where Intolerance is accepted, where History is forgotten, where Freedom of Speech is denied, and where the nation’s first black president is disrespected,” Slavin wrote.