one funny thing about this city is that the current mayor is a weird guy–weird enough that he’s being expelled from the green party and is up for reelection this year on his own because of that:

In November 2012, after Palmer had been critical of child adoption by homosexual couples and criticism about him being not much of a team player, the central Green party council did not reelect him.[7]

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In late 2015, Palmer was heavily criticized by other members of the Green Party as well the party’s youth organization, the Green Youth for his relatively right-wing (compared to the rest of the party) positions on immigration in combination with the refugee crisis. In August 2017, some weeks before the German federal election, Palmer published the book “We could not help everyone”, German: Wir können nicht allen helfen.

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On 5 May 2020, The New York Times reported that “Boris Palmer, the mayor of Tübingen, in the country’s southwest, suggested that reviving the economy mattered more than the lives of potential coronavirus victims, whom he characterized as old and unwell. “Let me be blunt: In Germany, we might be saving people who would be dead in half a year anyway,” he said in a TV interview last Tuesday.”[13]

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As a result of repeated accusations of racism against Boris Palmer, the Green Party of Baden-Württemberg initiated party order proceedings against him at a digital party conference on 8 May 2021. The aim of the proceedings is to expel Palmer from the party.[10] On 15 November 2021, the state executive of the Green Party of Baden-Württemberg officially applied for Palmer’s expulsion from the party.[11]