JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) – A Houston-area city has agreed to pay $145,000 to settle a
free-speech lawsuit with its former city manager who took the job after he was
fired from the southwest Missouri city of Joplin in the wake of a deadly
tornado.The Joplin Globe reports Mark Rohr was hired in League City, Texas, in 2014. The Joplin City Council fired him in a split vote after an investigator’s report described him as a vindictive manager who couldn’t get along with department heads.In 2016 he was fired from his League City post after he filed ethics complaints
against the mayor. Rohr alleged in a federal lawsuit his firing was an attempt to “chill” his speech.
Rohr was hired last month as city manager for the city of Marshall, Texas.
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