An Edwards Aquifer Conservancy board member resigned Tuesday after a TheTXLoop investigation reportedly uncovered a trove of racist, misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ and anti-immigration content posted on his account on social media platform X. Board member Don Laffere’s X account, which has since been deactivated, featured posts claiming the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was a Jewish conspiracy, that Black Americans on average are intellectually challenged and that Adolf Hitler was a “smart man” and “somewhat a prophet,” according to TheTXLoop. The Edwards Aquifer Conservancy is the nonprofit arm of the Edwards Aquifer Authority, the regional water management agency responsible for regulating the use of the primary source of San Antonio’s drinking water.
