PALMER LAKE, Colo. — The mayor of Palmer Lake quit on Wednesday while facing a possible recall election, as the community debates the annexation of land to build a mega gas station on Monument Hill.

Text messages in a lawsuit show that the fight got heated, especially as now-former Mayor Glant Havenar called people who opposed the Buc-ee's project "terrorists."

For months, talks about plans to put the massive beaver-branded gas station and convenience store off Interstate 25 between Denver and Colorado Springs had sparked division in the town. Now, they've bucked Havenar out of office, months after she was reelected as mayor in November.

"It's small-town politics. It's not the gas station that's bringing her behavior to light," former Colorado GOP staffer Darcy Schoening said.

Schoenin

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